Jannik Sinner wasted a golden opportunity to win the match that brought together the two Next Gen ATP Finals champions in the second round of the Italian Open, Rome.
Even so, thanks to his hard work he managed to turn things around. The hosts lead 6-1, 5-2 and are looking to claim a second win over the top 10 but third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas has other ideas.
From that position, the Greek national won four games in a row and had a chance to win the second set at 6-5, But He had to secure match points in the tiebreaker when the scores were 6/7 and 8/9. So in the final set, Dewi Fortuna again sided with the host tennis player.
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The Next Gen ATP Finals champions for the 2019 season in Milan returned to focus on overthrowing the 2019 ATP Finals champions in London before bagging a 6-1, 6-7, 6-2 win after 2 hours 13 minutes.
Thanks to this hard work that he advanced to the third round of the Italian Open and will duel against the 15th seed from Bulgaria, Grigor Dimitrov or the Japanese national, Yoshihito Nishioka.
“He is clearly a very experienced player,” said Jannik Sinner.
“I played against him here in Rome. I just want to play my game and move better. And At the start of the match, I felt great and I knew it was his first match on clay. “
“When I was going to serve to win the game (at 5-3 in the second set), I instead did one double foul and the tiebreak could have ended the other way around. I tried to start the third set stronger.”
The world number 81 never allowed Tsitsipas to breathe a sigh of relief in the first 40 minutes. The 19-year-old beat Tsitsipas three times in the first 30 minutes and won seven straight games from 2-1 in the first set and winning 3-0 in the second.
But this time, the champions at Marseille earlier this season showed their spike and turned things around by pushing the tiebreak round. He started at 4/1, forcing Sinner to get up.
The 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals winners had a set point opportunity at 6/5 and 8/7 but were secured by Sinner before Tsitsipas finally won the tiebreak by 11/9 when Sinner’s forehand return lodged in the net. But then, Tsitsipas lost the first four games in the deciding set before finally acknowledging Sinner’s surviving advantage at the Italian Open.
