A no-name surprises Sinner

After the great opening win against Aslan Karatsev Sinner met a weaker opponent on paper in the round of 125: Arthur Rinderknech (ATP 25), despite being 15 years old, has only played six games at ATP level, five of them this season. Nevertheless, Sinner knew that the Frenchman would be a tough guy. On the Challenger Tour, Rinderknech, who slipped into the Lyon main draw as a lucky loser, won 21 of 6 matches this season. The fact that he had great self-confidence was evident throughout the game. Rinderknech played big, repeatedly pushed his younger opponent onto the defensive - and ultimately deservedly won 7:6, 2:7 and 5:XNUMX. In the first part of the first set, Sinner not only had to struggle with the Frenchman's strong serve, but also with his own forehand, which, among other things, cost him a break. Rinderknech benefited from Sinner's teething problems and moved ahead to 4-1, but quickly felt the full class of his counterpart. The South Tyrolean adjusted his return position, returned more serves and promptly equalized to 4:4. Sinner is the tiebreak king However, Rinderknech did not give up and continued to impress with his straightforward and aggressive tennis. Sinner, on the other hand, still didn't show his best performance. This meant that when the score was 4:5 he had to fend off two set points, including a remarkable stop ball. The man from Sexten escaped into the tiebreak, which he won once again. Sinner increased his tiebreak record this season to 13:4 - impressive. Anyone who thought that winning the first set would break Rinderknech's resistance was mistaken. Sinner simply couldn't find his way into his game. Instead, he accumulated many errors, which on the one hand gave Rinderknech a boost and, on the other hand, steered the second movement in one direction: that of Arthur Rinderknech. The 25-year-old raced to 5-1 thanks to two breaks and won the second period 6-2 a few minutes later. Sinner has vision problems The third set began the way the second had ended: with a mistaken Sinner and a concentrated Rinderknech, who now sensed his chance and broke again in the third game. Although, to make matters worse, Sinner now had problems with his eyes and called a physiotherapist onto the pitch, he got the break back thanks to a magic stroke - 3:3. However, this was nothing more than a brief flare-up. Rinderknech immediately took Sinner's serve away again, but subsequently lost it again, but after almost two and a half hours of play, he served on the second attempt to make it 7:5. While the French Open dress rehearsal was a failure for Sinner, Rinderknech was happy about the greatest success of his career and at the same time about reaching the quarter-finals.

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A no-name surprises Sinner

Arthur Rinderknech is only known to die-hard tennis fans. Nevertheless, the Frenchman defeated Jannik Sinner at the ATP 250 tournament in Lyon on Thursday and thus messed up his dress rehearsal for the French Open.

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