The number one in the world starts badly against the American Paul and loses the first set but then recovers and beats the American Paul, the Spaniard exceeds our museums. And Paolini challenges the Gauff for the women’s title of the International of Italy
The Italian Forum dreamed of an all -Italian final but Lorenzo Musetti He did not make it and then we will be satisfied with seeing the two best tennis players on the red earth: Carlos Alcaraz who beat the carrine and Jannick Sinner who suffered only in the first set to overcome the American Tommy Paul.
A final that cannot be more noble and yet another attempt by our tennis player to demonstrate that even on red earth it is the best. The games played in Rome demonstrate this but now there is the most difficult exam to overcome because Alcaraz on this surface is unquestionably the strongest and last defeat of Sinner on the red earth came against the Spaniard about a year ago in the semifinal of the Rolland Garros.
Sinner’s return to the tournaments could not have been better, with the games the performances with the opponents swept away with ease of negligible before Paul grew up. Perhaps too far from Sinner, but from Navone, De Jong, Cerundolo and Ruud was expected something more.
And perhaps nobody imagined a false departure like Sinner’s against Paul with the American who is not wrong while Jannick makes a lot of mistakes and above all he cannot have good percentages on the first service. And he gives in the first 6-1 set without opposing the American number twelve in the world. The game for Sinner begins with the second set, finally plays his tennis and torn the service to Paul then cancels two break balls with two ace and goes 3-0 and then tear the service to the American again and close the set easily 6-0.
Sinner resumes to command the game after the black out of the first set and in the third set the American loses all his certainties and Janick goes 3-0, but when the road seems downhill the American tears the service to Sinner who touches several times behind the left thigh. Perhaps a muscle problem, but Sinner is certainly a bit in difficulty even if the American does not take advantage of it and Sinner resumes control by going to 5-2 and then closes 6-3 to the third match ball.
After 49 years an Italian can win the International of Italy, in 1976 Adriano Panatta succeeded.
