Cerundolo coach’s gestures while Sinner is sick infuriate fans. Courier also under indictment

It is a time of anger for Jannik Sinner’s fans after the world number one’s surprise elimination from Roland Garros. The Blue, who was dominating the challenge and was up 5-1 in the third set, suffered a physical collapse due to the heat and was remounted and defeated. Virtually out of energy, Sinner paused once at 5-4 0-40 for Cerundolo, then asked and was allowed to leave the court momentarily to go to the locker room.

During the player’s absence, a member of Cerundolo’s technical staff was captured on camera openly gesturing in the stands, protesting the chair judge’s decision. The man made the clock sign, then made the sleeping gesture with his hands clasped under his face, then laughed sarcastically. A behavior that infuriated the fans.

In the crosshairs of the Azure supporters is also Jim Courier, who during his commentary openly criticized the referee’s decision: “It’s clearly cramps. The rules are not the same for top players. Aurelie Tourte and the FFT will have to give explanations for what happened, to take a player out is beyond the limits of fairness.”

The final score tells all the drama of what happened on the Philippe Chatrier: 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 in favor of the Argentine. Sinner had dominated the first two sets with full authority, only to suffer a devastating physical collapse that rendered him virtually immobile on the court in the last three partials. With this defeat, the South Tyrolean’s extraordinary string of consecutive victories stops at 30.

The weather context had already triggered the alert: a Météo-France warning for extreme temperatures was active over Paris, with the French capital and several departments under observation for the heat wave. With a perceived temperature of 36 degrees over the central field, the risks of dehydration, heat stroke, nausea, and exhaustion unfortunately materialized right on Sinner’s body at the worst time.