The Sinner engine is running at full speed

The 17-year-old from Sesto eliminated the Russian Alexey Zakharov 4:6, 6:1, 6:3 in the second round.

Sinner is playing his 6th Challenger tournament this season in Lexington. In Kentucky he is seeded number 3 and, like a week ago in Binghamton, had a bye at the start. The exceptional talent, who is ranked 194th in the ATP rankings, met Alexey Zakharov, who is 2 years older than him, for the second time on Wednesday, after the meeting on Tuesday when the score was 2:4, 5:15 from the Pusterer's point of view had to be canceled due to rain. After the duel resumed, the Russian Sinner immediately took the service to win the set 30:6.

Sinner can no longer be stopped Sinner promptly recovered from this shock. The South Tyrolean dominated the second half of the game, moved ahead to 2-2 with two breaks and a little later closed the set with another break to make it 4-0. In the decisive third set, Sinner controlled the match and made it 6-1 with a break. The Pusterer didn't let anything go wrong and won 3:3 after 0:1 hours of play.

A hard-fought victory for the young Pusterer, who in the round of 285 faced the winner of the game between the American Maxime Cressy (ATP 512) and the Briton Evan Hoyt, current world number XNUMX.

By the way, another South Tyrolean tennis ace, Verena Meliss, was in action in Lexington. After surviving the women's qualifying, she had to withdraw in round 1. ( Click here for your own report ).

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The Sinner engine is running at full speed

After a short stuttering start, Jannik Sinner really picked up speed on Wednesday at the ATP Challenger in Lexington ($54.160) and finally confidently made it into the round of XNUMX.

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