Jannick beats Dutch De Jong who in the second set is injured in the wrist. Tomorrow he will challenge the Argentine Cerùndolo
Another victory in two sets, the number 23 consecutive for Jannick Sinner. Few problems against the Dutchman Jesper de Jong But in the first set the number one in the world gets reassembled from 4-1 to 4-4. A drop in concentration that Sinner He does not pay because then he immediately torn the service to the Dutchman and closes the first set 6-4. In the second there seems to be still a balance until the Dutchman gets angry on the wrist falling. The intervention of the physiotherapist to restore physical integrity to the Dutch and Sinner flies away by closing 6-2 in ease. An hour and 35 minutes of play, a few minutes less than the first game with Navone. Another step forward towards the best condition, but tomorrow the level will get up and Sinner will have to make fewer mistakes and less distractions.
He also knows: «It was a different game from the first as a condition- Sinner said at the end of the game-, I started well then I had a big decrease in concentration but it can be there, but I managed to break immediately. Then he hurt himself and I am very sorry because he is a splendid person. Cerundol? He had a crazy season, with him I lost here, I will have to raise the level if I want to play on par. These are the challenges I need to understand what my level is ».
With Sinner there will obviously be all his people, easy to imagine that the central of the Foro Italico also in the next games will be sold out like the first two meetings that Sinner has played in Rome. Improve is the password, because Sinner does not yet fully have the rhythm of the game even if against De Jong has shown that he knows how to find the right path at the time of difficulty, that coldness in the decisive moments of the matches that made him become the number one in the world. Sinner will face the Argentine Francisco Cerùndolo who in Rome eliminated Jarry and the Austrian ofner. Cerùndolo is the number 18 in the world but is a specialist in the red earth and two years ago at the Foro Italico Battè Sinner in the round of 16 of the International of Italy. Sinner is not (cannot be) at the top of the condition, but he knows he will have a very hard opponent in front of him. It is the first real test in Rome for the South Tyrolean, it takes the true Sinner.
