Quarterfinals: Sinner wrestles Rosol

The 18-year-old from Sexten (ATP) clinched a three-set win in the round of 16 against Lukas Rosol (ATP 152), who is 6 years older than him. Both opponents fought a tough fight for two and a half hours before Sinner used his second match point and made it 7:3 (7 ), 5:6, 3:27. For him it is the second victory in the second duel with the former world number XNUMX and two-time Czech Davis Cup winner

The match in the Vandée department was very even from the start. Sinner immediately took the lead 2-1, but immediately conceded the rebreak to equalize 2-2. Afterwards, both players served their serves confidently until the score was 6:6. Rosol only had to fend off a break point in the fifth game. The experienced Czech played great in the tiebreak, immediately took a 4-1 lead and converted his first set point to make it 58-7 after 3 minutes of play.

Sinner ignites the turbo In the second half of the game, Sinner promptly moved ahead to 4:1 and 40:0, but missed all three break points to make it 5:1. The Czech, however, did better, took Sinner's serve and equalized to 4:4. With the score at 5:4, the Puster player missed the first two set points at Service Rosol. Shortly afterwards he led 40:0, this time he converted his fifth set point to make it 7:5. So this match had to be decided in the third set.

Here Sinner took the serve from his opponent to make it 3-1, before racing to 5-2. Then the man from Sexten fended off two break points and finally converted his second match point to make the final score 6:3. 18 points and $2.480 in prize money With this victory, Sinner has already secured 18 ATP points and $2.480 in prize money. In the quarterfinals on Friday he will face Romanian Marius Copil (ATP 90), who knocked out Paolo Lorenzi in three sets.

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Quarterfinals: Sinner wrestles Rosol

Jannik Sinner put a long-time world-class player in his place at the ATP Challenger in Mouilleron le Captif (France) and reached the third to last round.

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