Wimbledon: Jannik Sinner Advances to the Round of 16; Jenson Brooksby Is Eliminated

Jannik Sinner advanced to the third round of Wimbledon without much difficulty, reaching the round of 16 for the fifth consecutive time on the London grass. His opponent of the day, Jenson Brooksby, stood no chance, falling 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 to the world No. 1 after two hours and fifteen minutes of play.

After facing a few too many difficulties in his previous matches, Jannik Sinner immediately shifted into high gear, closing out the first set 6-4. The decisive break came in the seventh game: Brooksby lost his service game, and from there Sinner pulled away without any trouble.

The second set saw Sinner close it out 6-3, taking just a few more minutes than the first set (forty-nine minutes versus thirty-seven). The key game was once again the seventh, one of only two in which a break occurred—an effective springboard for his dominance in the subsequent games. The third and final set began with Sinner’s only slip-up—a game lost on his own serve—but continued with an immediate counterbreak and such solid play that it left the brave American player with no chance.

Jannik Sinner thus advances to the round of 16 at Wimbledon after defeating, in order, Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic 4-6, 6-3, 6(6)-7, 6-2, 6-3, Portugal’s Nuno Borges 7-6(4), 7-6(2), 6-4, and the American Brooksby: the first two matches were intense and difficult for the South Tyrolean, who in the third match, however, almost completely shook off the rust caused by a month without official matches following Roland Garros (during which he played and won only one exhibition match against Cameron Norrie).

Jenson Brooksby, on the other hand, was eliminated after defeating Australian Aleksandar Vukic 7-6(7), 6-1, 6-1 and Peruvian Ignacio Buse 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 in earlier rounds. Ranked No. 81 in the ATP rankings, Brooksby also played on grass this year at Queen’s and Eastbourne, falling in the second round at both tournaments—first to Francisco Cerundolo and then to Ugo Humbert.