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Some timid, isolated whistles upon entering the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium and a few scattered tweets from his opponents, not his friends, opened Sinner’s US Open debut: a terrifying first set but then Jannik returned to his usual self.
The alarm went off on time. But really? Jannik Sinner This was what was seen in the first hour of his first match in The United States is open As a world number 1? No, it can’t be that, Now that the worst is behind us and they are alone Some shy, isolated whistles as he entered the field at Arthur Ashe Stadium and some scattered tweets from his opponents, not his friends.
The Americano Mackenzie MacDonald It didn’t seem real to find a player like that in front of him, who instead of entering the field with a free head, seemed to still carry all this weight inside him. Acquittal in the Clostbuhl case Take it from him. But that can’t be it, not even McDonald, who is an honest worker, No. 140 in the world But he was dreaming without missing any ball even intentionally.
the ingredients For one of the biggest surprises (h Disappointmentsfor the Italians) for this season, in short, everyone was there. After a nightmare Which lasted for one set and one game, the first set of the second set in which Sinner committed two double faults and lost his serve after already suffering three breaks in the first set, but the planets reorganized: Darren Cahill and Simone Vagnozzi on the bench are urging him to keep calm, A few fans in orange, a sinner who alone slowly understood that everything needed to change. And what could be done. The break in the fourth useful opportunity in the next match was almost a satisfaction: It couldn’t have ended this way, it wasn’t supposed to end this way, this last tournament of the season, the first tournament in New York to be played as the king of world tennis and try Conquer everything and everyone, despite your mental and physical conditions. Wrong may not be best for All that happened.
Yannick tried to do it. resting And to think only about the field, but when everyone around you is talking about you and not about your successes (and to think about that from Cincinnati It’s been a week, not a century) It’s getting harder even for an iceman to stay still. While waiting for the first set to go back to Sinner too, the US Open is continuing in the meantime, with the match against McDonald actually changing irreparably in that break in the second game of the second set and with the break in the second set. The fourth game of the third set and the final verdict was: The guilty one has returned to being guilty, Mackenzie has gone on a longer goalless streak (or 15 games max) than the one Yannick mentioned in his famous press conference. “I didn’t start out the best way, The first game is never easy, he said. You have to accept that. McDonald played well early on. I tried to stay there mentally and get into the rhythm. “I am very happy to be in the next round and to win for the first time on this court.”
Ironically, in the second round there will be the same player he faced in his Cincinnati debut: ThatAlex Michelsen, another American, was defeated by Lorenzo Sonego in the Winston-Salem final. (When he also risked being disqualified for throwing the ball into the stands) And that was just the first part of Sinner’s day in Ohio. Six hours of testing, When no one but him and a few others knew about the bomb that would explode shortly afterwards.
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