As good as never before: Sinner excels in France

The 18-year-old from Sexten defeated Romania's Marius Copil (ATP 90), the next top 100 player, in the quarterfinals on Friday. At the end of a hard-fought game, Sinner triumphed 3:6, 6:1 and 6:4. As a result, the tennis talent from Pusteria will be better positioned in the world rankings next Monday than ever before in his career. Depending on the performance of his immediate ranking neighbors, the current number 127 in the world could make it into the top 120 for the first time.

Sinner has better nerves In Mouilleron there was Sinner, just like that the day before against Lukas Rosol , took the first set - this time clearly with 3:6 after losing two of his first three service games. In the second section, the youngster suddenly appeared transformed: he put Copil under pressure with confident shots and fended off several breakballs with a lot of nerve. At the same time, he took the service from his opponent twice and forced the third, decisive round with a 6-1 set win.

Sinner started this straight away with a break, and shortly afterwards he even made it 2-0. But just now, when the South Tyrolean had paved his way to victory, Copil rose like a phoenix from the ashes. While Sinner began to weaken on the forehand, the Romanian pushed himself to win several strong points so that he broke his opponent, who was ten years his junior, to make it 2-2 and then took the lead for the first time in the set. However, he had made the calculations without the stand-up man named Jannik Sinner. He bit back into the game and countered with a break to make it 4:3. After that he didn't let the butter be taken off his bread and after almost two hours of play he converted his first match point to make it 6:4. Duel with an outsider In the semi-finals on Saturday afternoon, Sinner will face the French outsider Mathias Bourgue (ATP 247), who eliminated the Austrian Dennis Novak 6:3, 7:6 in the quarter-finals. The South Tyrolean has never played against the Frenchman. In France, Sinner already has 4.260 euros in prize money and 35 world ranking points in his pocket.

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As good as never before: Sinner excels in France

Jannik Sinner clinched the next three-set win at the ATP Challenger in Mouilleron le Captif and thus secured the best world ranking of his career. He is now in the semi-finals of the tournament in western France, which is worth 92.040 euros.

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