Andrea Scanzi drastic on Jannik Sinner: "Aliens and locusts…"

Jannik Sinner scrambled to win the Madrid Masters 1000 final against Alexander Zverev, becoming the first tennis player in history to win five consecutive Masters tournaments. The Azure closed out the final against the German in less than an hour, demonstrating his total dominance on the circuit.

And Andrea Scanzi, who has been following his career since the beginning, was among the many who celebrated him: “He simply plays alone. More than winning, he plows and divides. Without Alcaraz around, the only suspense when he’s on the field is related only to extrasports events: injuries, heat stroke, aliens, meteors, locusts and so on,” the journalist wrote on his Facebook profile.

“He is siderally superior to anyone. Evidence of this is the slaughter he received today (for the umpteenth time) from Zverev, a guy who is three in the world (not 3000) and always wins all the matches he has to win, but then as soon as he gets to the finals he is planed with even ‘excessive’ virulence. Absolute phenomenon.”

The final score of 6-1, 6-2 in just 58 minutes tells all about the superiority of the South Tyrolean. Sinner immediately took control of the match, posting the first break as early as the second game and flying to 4-0 in less than a quarter of an hour. In the second set, the script did not change: four breaks in total in the match, with Zverev never able to find countermeasures to the Azure’s precision and aggressiveness.

Making the record even more extraordinary is the context in which it accrued: before Madrid, Sinner had already lifted the trophies of Paris, Indian Wells, Miami and Monte Carlo, a streak that had not even succeeded legends such as Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. With his success at the Caja Magica, moreover, the Italian became the youngest tennis player ever to reach at least one final in all nine Masters 1000s currently on the calendar.