Tournament victory! Sinner triumphs in Lexington

Sinner – who was seeded number 3 – brought Australian seed Alex Bolt, seeded number 2, to his knees in the final 6:4, 3:6, 6:4. The Sesto native has already won his second Challenger tournament this year: he managed his first trick in Bergamo in February.

A sensational week Sinner has had a sensational week in which he was able to improve from game to game. After four wins against the Russian Alexey Zakharov, the American Maxime Cressy (ATP 285), the South Korean Duckhee Lee (ATP 203) and the American host JC Aragone (ATP 268), the man from Sexten met Alex Bolt in the final. Sinner got off to a dream start, promptly moved ahead to 4:1 with two breaks and confidently took the set 40:6 after 4 minutes.

However, Bolt recovered well from this setback. In the sixth game it was the Australian who broke Sinner to make it 4-2. The number 2 in the tournament now played strong tennis and a short time later closed the set to 6:3. So this final had to be decided in the third set. Sinner moves into the top 150 There, Sinner set the tone again and immediately moved ahead to 3-0. With the score at 5:3, the man from Sexten missed the first two match points and then conceded the counter break to make it 5:4. In the following game, however, Sinner closed the bag: Bolt made a double fault on the decisive point and made the Puster player the winner after 1:58 hours.

For his second tournament victory on the ATP tour to Bergamo at the end of February, Sinner received $7.200 in prize money and 80 ATP points in Lexington, with which he will move into the top 150 in the world next week (plus the ITF points). This means he remains by far the best U18 player in the world in the ATP rankings. No break But there is no break for Sinner: He will soon travel from Kentucky to California to play his third Challenger tournament in a row. At the $81.240 tournament in Aptos, Sinner starts in the main draw and meets Maverick Banes (ATP 247) in the first round.

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Tournament victory! Sinner triumphs in Lexington

Great performance from Jannik Sinner: The Puster native won the Challenger tournament worth $54.160 on Sunday evening in Lexington (Kentucky), USA.

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