Brooksby: A trick wasn’t enough against Jannik Sinner

Jannik Sinner advanced to the round of 16 at Wimbledon after a three-set victory over American Jenson Brooksby, who put up a fight but was no match for the world No. 1. During the match, the American tried to use a tactic to shift the momentum and get the better of the Italian, but the ploy didn’t work.

During a change of ends, Brooksby, sitting in his chair, pulled a small piece of paper from his bag and carefully read some notes written in pen—perhaps countermeasures he had decided on with his coach to counter the South Tyrolean champion’s game. However, the move did not pay off.

The final score was 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in favor of Sinner, who took two hours and fifteen minutes to defeat his opponent. It was an improvement over his previous rounds, in which the South Tyrolean had struggled a bit too much against Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic and Portuguese Nuno Borges—partly due to the rust that had set in after a month without official matches following Roland Garros.

At the press conference, Sinner then analyzed his next opponent, Japan’s Shintaro Mochizuki: “I’ve seen him play. He’s an excellent player, and especially on grass, his ball stays very low, which helps him a lot, and he also seems like a very aggressive player. We’ll see what happens: we’ve never trained together and we’ve never faced each other, so we’ll see. But above all, I’m trying to focus on my side of the court, and I know that right now, that’s the most important thing.”