Jannik Sinner, good news from Cincinnati

Jannik Sinner, ranking

Despite everything, Jannik Sinner can smile about what happened in Cincinnati.

The South Tyrolean lost on his debut in the local Masters 1000 (after triumphing in the one in Toronto), but it didn’t go any better for many other bigs, especially when one considers those ahead of him in the world rankings.

However, for this Sinner is already sure to keep his sixth place: only the U.S. Taylor Fritz is still in the running in Ohio and anyway even triumphing he would reach 4425, while the Italian is at 4645.

Mundo Deportivo devoted ample space to the defeat suffered by Jannik Sinner in Cincinnati.

“It is not easy to digest in three days the conquest of the first ATP Masters 1000. Not even the 22nd birthday helps to avoid a hangover,” reads the website of the famous Spanish newspaper.

And again, “In Cincinnati it was a new beginning and fatigue suffocated him because a veteran like Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic, 33 years old and world number 66, was aware that he could take advantage of an opponent still in the clouds.”

Former Italian tennis player Paolo Bertolucci to OaSport, on the other hand, downplayed Jannik Sinner’s knockout in Cincinnati, right after his Toronto triumph: “Honestly, I’m not surprised. Beating Lajovic yesterday, the way Jannik was, was almost equivalent to winning the tournament.”

“There is little time to adapt and a very different climatic context. He, then, with the exception of the Final in Canada, faced quarters and semifinals in Toronto always playing in the evening and also having less margin to recover from one match to the next. It’s normal that he didn’t have great energy, and I wouldn’t be dramatizing what happened.”