Sinner isn't getting up to speed (yet).

At the Open Sud de France in Montpellier, which was held on hard courts (542.695 euros in prize money), Sinner failed in the first round. He had to admit defeat to Mikael Ymer 3:6 and 4:6 in the next-gen duel. The Swede, who is three years older, is two places ahead of the 19-year-old whiz kid from Sexten in the world rankings since this Monday at position 78 to be led.

At the start of the duel, Sinner's mixed weeks down under were clearly noticeable. He seemed unsettled and initially found no means against the aggressive Swede. He quickly took a 3-0 lead. Although Sinner didn't serve again afterwards, it was still not enough to win the set.

Sinner is weak with his backhand However, the 19-year-old South Tyrolean slowly warmed up and contributed to the game having several high-class rallies at the start of the second round. However, both opponents now revealed weaknesses in their service game. Sinner took the service from his opponent twice, but immediately received the rebreak. When the score was 3:3, the Pusterer's high susceptibility to making mistakes on the backhand that day became his downfall: Ymer put a lot of pressure on and finally broke to make it 4:3 thanks to an unforced error from Sinner. The path to the opening victory was then paved. Montpellier is followed by Rotterdam This is Sinner's first defeat against the Scandinavian after he clearly defeated him in their only meeting so far in November at the Next Gen Finals. The South Tyrolean is now heading to Rotterdam, where he will be able to serve in the main draw of the ATP 500 tournament next week thanks to a wild card. Sinner then reported to Marseille. In February he has to defend a total of 100 ATP points from the previous year in order to climb further up the world rankings.

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Sinner isn't getting up to speed (yet).

For Jannik Sinner, the new tennis year has not gone as planned so far. After only winning one game in his three tournament appearances in Australia, his season debut in Europe also went wrong.

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