Sinner moves into the round of 16 after a three-set thriller

After his sensational tournament victory last week at the ATP Challenger in Bergamo (SportNews reported) , Jannik Sinner continues his successful run on the hard courts of ATA Battisti Trento.

On Wednesday, Sinner also prevailed against Frenchman Albano Olivetti, currently number 432 in the ATP rankings. But it was a hard-fought victory after an extremely even and exciting game. In the first set, both players served securely until the score was 6:6, only Sinner had to fend off a breakball from the Frenchman. In the tiebreak, Olivetti had a set point at 7:6, but Sinner didn't let himself be defeated, scored three points in a row and won the tiebreak with 9:7.

In the second half of the game, Olivetti took serve from Pusterer in the fifth game to make it 3-2 and then prevailed 6-3. When he pulled away to 3-0 and 4-1 in the third set, many believed that this match was over. Sinner once again showed his nerve and equalized to 4:4. This set also went into the tiebreak, which the Sexten player won again. After exactly 2:21 hours of play, Sinner used his first match point for a much celebrated 7:4 victory. In the round of 11 on Thursday, in the fourth match after 21 a.m., another Frenchman is waiting for the Pusterer, 505-year-old Jules Okala (ATP XNUMX).

Trocker is eliminated against top-seeded Sells The 18-year-old Moritz Trocker from Völs was eliminated in the first round in Trento on Tuesday. Top seed Jelle Sells of the Netherlands, number 311 in the world, dispatched him 53-6, 1-6 in just 1 minutes. Trocker took a 1-0 lead, but then had to give up eleven games in a row and only took the honorary point in the second set when the score was 0:5.

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Sinner moves into the round of 16 after a three-set thriller

On Wednesday evening in the first round of the $25.000 ITF tournament, Jannik Sinner defeated number 8 seeded Frenchman Albano Olivetti in a real three-set thriller with 7:6(7), 3:6 and 7:6(4 ) enforced.

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