ATP Finals: a devastating Jannik Sinner flies to the finals, Casper Ruud scrambled
ATP Finals: a devastating Jannik Sinner flies into the finals, Casper Ruud scrambled
An impressive Jannik Sinner demolished Casper Ruud with a score of 6-1 6-2 in the second semifinal of the ATP Finals in Turin and qualified for the finals for the second year in a row.
This time forò he will not face Novak Djokovic but Taylor Fritz, who this year already beaten in the US Open final and in the round robin of this tournament, both times without losing a set.
The first three games are a nightmare for poor Ruud, who suffers a partial 12-3 and especially a tennis lesson from the world number 1 losing his serve in the second game at 15.
In the fourth he holds serve to nil and then in the next one he has two counterbreak balls but Jannik jumps to the net both times and the Norwegian pardons him especially on the second.
Sinner eventually holds the serve and then again breaks his opponent even to zero, then fluently holds the serve to close out the first partial.
No break in the first four games of the second set, in the fourth Sinner recovers from 0-30. On 2-2 Ruud nullifies three break points, the first two consecutive, but can&n t do anything on the fourth.
È the decisive break, but Jannik, while suffering in the seventh game a fantastic point by Ruud who does not get distracted on three miraculous recoveries of the’Alto Adige, makes another one on 4-2 and shortly afterwards closes the match, or rather, the massacre, after an’hour and 9 minutes of play.
