Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner is living a rather peculiar moment. The San Candido champion wants to regain his condition.
Good first for Jannik Sinner. The Italian tennis player reached the Round of 16 of the Cincinnati Masters 1000 by winning against the young star talent Michelsen, a troublesome opponent for his tournament debut. Sinner still appeared far from his best condition, but still managed to pull off a good victory, triumphing with a 6-4;7-5 result.
Now Jannik will face Australian Jordan Thompson in the next round, a not impossible opponent but where the main goal will be to find the best condition ahead of the Us Open, the main goal of the season. While Jannik is moving on several Azzurri have been eliminated in the first round, complicit in a less than lucky draw, especially for Lorenzo Musetti and Matteo Berrettini.
The Carrarino was back from a good period of form but immediately drew the American Frances Tiafoe, a tough opponent on this surface and who ruled him in two sets. For the Olympic bronze medalist it is time to think about the upcoming tournaments where he will have few points to defend. A similar situation to that of Matteo Berrettini, a tennis player called to a great second half of the season to get back among the seeded players.
It was precisely not being among the latter that ruined the plans of the former world number 6, who was immediately engaged in the first round against the Dane Rune. Matteo fell in three sets: he won the first partial and then suffered the comeback of the young opponent, complicit in the still not optimal condition. Despite the defeat there is a new great record to record.
Berrettini better than Sinner, is Italian record
Despite the defeat Berrettini made an Italian record, surpassing Jannik Sinner in a curious fact. As reported by the Twitter account of Quindici Zero Berrettini is the tennis player with the most sets won consecutively during Atp tournaments, he reached 21 consecutive sets with the success over Rune and overtook Jannik Sinner himself, stopped at 20.
A non-priority record, but nevertheless a great satisfaction for the blue tennis player, who, is working tirelessly for the return to good condition. Matteo has been unlucky with the draw, complicit in a ranking that has seen him collapse after various physical problems: in recent weeks he won the tournaments of Kitzbuhel and Gstaad without losing sets, winning over opponents of the caliber of Tsitsipas and many others.
A small satisfaction that gives morale ahead of the upcoming engagements, Berrettini could work on another 250 tournament and then head to the Us Open.