Australian Open: Jannik Sinner evens the score with Tristan Schoolkate
Australian Open: Jannik Sinner-Tristan Schoolkate 4-6 6-4
Jannik Sinner evens the scores with Tristan Schoolkate in the second round of the Australian Open. After losing the first partial 6-4, the South Tyrolean è got back on even footing by also winning the partial with a score of 6-4.
The match began immediately with a thrill for the Australian wild card, who managed to hold serve only in the advantages. In the fourth game è Sinner took a risk, as she managed to come back from 15-30 closing the game on advantages. In the closing stages, however, è surprisingly Schoolkate to be more incisive and in the tenth game places the decisive break to zero, which also gives him the first set, thus interrupting the streak of 13 consecutive games without losing a partial of the South Tyrolean.
In the second set, the Blue put more pressure on his opponent, who on more than one occasion managed to hold serve only in the advantages. In the seventh game, however, the world number one placed the decisive extension, winning the break at zero, and then closed the partial with the score of 6-4 at the first set point.
Jannik Sinner had not lost a set since the second round of the Shanghai Masters 1000, where he won in three sets with a score of 6-7 6-4 6-2 over Argentina's Tomas Martin Etcheverry.