Holger Rune throws it to the bullfight against Jannik Sinner: it goes to the third set

Holger Rune throws it to the bullfight against Jannik Sinner: it goes to the third set

After winning the first set 6-4 in the quarterfinal of the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 Jannik Sinner has to surrender the second set in a tie-break against Holger Rune.

At 2-2 in the partial Rune climbs back from 0-40 on his serve by stringing together five consecutive points. Same thing on 5-5 but on 0-30 he gets a warning for loss of time between points, makes an unsympathetic gesture to the audience and calls the supervisor to lose more time. He goes 0-40 and then a’s another time stringing five consecutive points.

Sinner holds the next serve to zero and so it goes to the tie-break. On 3-2 Rune a forehand of Sinner ends perhaps long but the umpire calls it good and Jannik canò replay the point, Rune misses the answer and è 3-3. With a great pass Sinner wins 5-3, at 6-4 he has match point on his serve but Rune plays his best point of the match.

On the second match point Sinner puts wide the response, then Rune with a first winner goes him to play the set point on 7-6 on which Sinner misses a backhand and so it goes to the third.