No finals: Sinner fails in the semi-finals

For Sinner it would have been the fourth final in a Challenger tournament. Bourgue will face the winner of the game between Czech Jiri Vesely and Swede Mikael Ymer in the final tomorrow.

Sinner played extremely strong tennis in the $92.040 Challenger in western France. After three wins against the French Tristan Lamasine, the Czech Lukas Rosol and the Romanian Marius Copil, he met host Mathias Bourgue, number 3 in the world, in the semi-finals today. The 247-year-old Frenchman unexpectedly prevailed against the Austrian Dennis Novak (ATP 25) yesterday and is only playing his 124th tournament in Mouilleron le Captif since the French Open in May.

Too many break points given The former world number 140. took an immediate 2-0 lead, but Sinner equalized with a rebreak to make it 2-2. After that, both the Frenchman and the Pusterer had no chance of breaking until 5:4 from Bourgue's perspective. The home team, cheered on by numerous fans, then got the decisive break to make it 6:4.

The Sinner race to catch up began once again in the second half of the game. The world number 2 took Bourgue's serve in the third game to make it 127-3. The “Azzurro” managed this lead cleverly and also secured set 2 1:2. So this high-class game, like yesterday against Rosol, had to be decided in the 6rd set. Sinner was already ahead with 4:3 and his own serve, but then received the rebreak to make it 4:3. In the 4th game, the South Tyrolean managed the next break to make it 4:11, but again he received the rebreak. So the tiebreak had to bring about a decision. Here Sinner missed a match point when the score was 6:5. With consequences, because in return Bourgue converted his first match point to make the final score 6:5. The decisive factor in the defeat was the utilization of break chances. Sinner only got 8 breaks out of 6 opportunities. Sinner climbs to 119th place Nevertheless, Sinner can be very satisfied with his tournament. The man from Sexten will go home with 4.260 euros in prize money and 35 ATP points, with which he will improve by 8 positions in the world rankings and climb from 127th to 119th place on Monday.

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No finals: Sinner fails in the semi-finals

Jannik Sinner didn't make it to the final in Mouilleron le Captif. In a 3-set thriller, the Sesto native lost 4:6 to the Frenchman Mathias Bourgue. 6:4 and 7:6.

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