Jannik Sinner is in the round of 16

On Tuesday afternoon in Bergamo, the 17-year-old from Sexten won the “Trofeo Faip-Perrel” (46.600 euros in prize money) against number 9 seeded Italian Salvatore Caruso 6:2, 2:6 and 6 after more than two hours of play: 2 and moved into the round of 224, where he met the Croatian Viktor Galovic (ATP XNUMX).

After his opening win against the Austrian Lucas Miedler (ATP 277), Sinner had to play in Bergamo against the Sicilian Caruso, who won the ITF Futures tournament in Bolzano four years ago. Sinner is currently number 546 in the world, Caruso is 374 places ahead of him at number 172. However, this difference was not visible at all in the first set. Sinner took serve from his opponent in the sixth game to make it 4:2 and shortly afterwards used his next break point to win the set 6:2.

In the second period, however, Caruso immediately moved ahead 3-0 and ultimately took the set 6-2. In the third section, Sinner managed the break again to make it 3-1. When the score was 5:2, he took serve again from the Sicilian and, after 2:09 hours of play, used his first match point to make the final score 6:2.

In the round of 16 against Croatian Galovic In the round of 8, Sinner will face the Croatian Viktor Galovic on Thursday, who was able to eliminate the German Daniel Brands, number 7 in the tournament, 5:7, 6:7 today. For the victory, Sinner received 69 ATP points, with which he will move up 477 places in the world rankings to XNUMXth place.

Sinner also plays doubles in Bergamo. Liam Caruana, a Roman who grew up in the USA, was supposed to face the French duo Benjamin Bonzi/Quentin Halys in the first round tomorrow at 15 p.m. But Bonzi is out due to injury, so the “Azzurri” are now waiting for new opponents.

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Jannik Sinner is in the round of 16

For the first time in his career, Jannik Sinner won two games in the main draw of an ATP Challenger tournament.

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