Roland Garros, Jannik Sinner takes down Arthur Rinderknech in three sets

Jannik Sinner did not tremble at Roland Garros, easily entering the second round after beating Arthur Rinderknech in three sets. Indeed, in just over two and a quarter hours of play, the ATP circuit number 1 got the better of the Frenchman thanks to a score of 6-4, 6-3, 7-5. His next opponent will be another transalpine star of international tennis like Richard Gasquet.

Start of the match with some suffering for Sinner, called upon to cancel as many as three break points by Rinderknech in the third game. The contrast between the two remains rather balanced until the closing acts of the first set, which smiles on the South Tyrolean adept at snatching service from his opponent at the first and only opportunity. The one, however, that earned him the 6-4 final.

Sinner sweats even less in the second set, when instead it is the 3-1 point that represents the turning point: the game goes to the’blue at the second break point. In the following games it is enough to control operations to take a rather easy lead of 2-0.

The game seemed to change suddenly in the third set, however, in which Rinderknech even managed to take a 4-0 lead thanks to the two breaks built up and then capitalized on in the second and fourth games. Sinner, however, doesn&#8217t take it lying down, and after the immediate counterbreak of 1-4 he concedes only one more game to his transalpine rival and then takes five in a row, bringing himself back from 2-5 to 7-5 and earning the next round at Roland Garros.