Jannik Sinner has no chance against Tsitsipas

After his sensational opening win at the “Internazionali d'Italia” against the American Steve Johnson, Sinner is on everyone's lips. The Pusterer is increasingly developing into an Italian tennis star. Trained on Monday Sinner with the Swiss legend Roger Federer and the Canadian Denis Shapovalov, the next day with the Kalterer Andreas Seppi and the Japanese Kei Nishikori. On Thursday it was against Stefanos Tsitsipas for a place in the round of 20. The 7-year-old Greek, who is ranked XNUMXth in the ATP world rankings, defeated “clay court king” Rafael Nadal in the semifinals in Madrid just last week before losing out to Novak Djokovic in the final.

Stefanos Tsitsipas prevailed against Jannik Sinner. © APA/afp / JAVIER SORIANO

On the sold-out first place, Tsitsipas immediately moved ahead to 1-3, but Sinner equalized a little later to make it 0-3. In the eighth game the Greek managed to break again to take a 3:5 lead. After 3 minutes, Tsitsipas converted his first set point to make it 38:6. In the second half of the game, the world number 3 promptly made it 7-4. Sinner's resistance was broken: Tsitsipas was able to prevail 1:6. The result seems clear, but the young Pusterer also cut a good figure on Thursday. Despite defeat, a huge success The tournament in Rome was still a huge success for Sinner. Starting from the pre-qualification, the 17-year-old from Sexten (thanks to a wild card) made it to the second round at his start in a Masters 1000 tournament. Sinner goes home with 33.635 euros in prize money, and the redhead also collects 45 ATP points, which move him up from 263rd to 229th in the world rankings. For comparison: At the beginning of the year Sinner was number 551, and exactly 365 days ago he was only number 1480 in the ATP ranking.

Internazionali d'Italia, round of 32:

Stefanos Tsitsipas – Jannik Sinner 6:3, 6:2

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Jannik Sinner has no chance against Tsitsipas

After the surprise in the first round at the ATP Masters 1 in Rome, Jannik Sinner's final stop was in the second round. The 1000-year-old from Sexten (ATP 2) failed on Thursday afternoon against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 17:263 and 6:3.

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