Sinner, anything but a light-hearted choice: the South Tyrolean champion had to give up so much to protect himself.
That he would not play the round of 16 in Paris-Bercy was clear from the first moment. When he was interviewed after the match against Mackenzie McDonald, regarding the next match he had said, “We’ll see how I feel tomorrow.” It was clear, then, that he was not too convinced to contest the match.
It did not go down well with him or his clan, as well as with other tennis players and former athletes who spoke on the matter, the little consideration given to the athletes competing by the organizers of the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000. Jannik Sinnerscored the winning point late in the night, at 2:37 a.m., and was due to return to the court14 hours laterto battleAlex de Minaur Unpredictable rhythms for a tennis player of his caliber, fresh from a marathon inViennaand already projected, by necessity, toward the now imminentFinals in Turin
Hence the understandable and entirely legitimate decision to beat retreat and focus only on the next event at the foot of the Mole. A wise choice, especially in light of the fact that by winning in the first round in Paris he consolidated hisfourth place in the Raceand avoided, in light of this, a hellish draw. What he had to achieve, in short, he had already achieved.
What and how much did Sinner lose by beating retreat
Sinner’s only pity that the choice to abandon the running Parisian train was not at no cost He will pay dearly for this decision, the South Tyrolean champion, who in light of what we will tell you in a moment was even more courageous.
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By dropping out of the Masters 1000 being played at the Palais Omnisport, Sinner has potentially lost an avalanche of money. Winning against de Minaur, which is highly likely, would have brought into his pockets a beauty of136 thousand euros
In total, reasoning in perspective, he could have taken home up to836 thousand eurosapproximately, a decidedly considerable amount of money to which, instead, he was forced for logistical reasons to kick in. And it didn’t end there. Continuing the journey beyond the Alps could have allowed him, thanks to an all-too-benevolent scoreboard, to grind out points and to shorten the distance from number 3, Daniil Medvedev. Let there be no talk, then, of a light-hearted choice. Sinner knew full well what he was getting into, but he much preferred the prestige of the Finals to the Atp points and money at stake in Paris.