Jannik Sinner gives Jenson Brooksby no quarter: he takes the second set as well

Jannik Sinner also wins the second set against Jenson Brooksby, taking a 2-0 lead in the third-round match of the prestigious London tournament. In terms of the score, Sinner closed out the second set 6-3, taking just a few more minutes than the first set (forty-nine minutes versus thirty-seven). The key game was the seventh, one of two in which a break occurred—an effective springboard for his run in the subsequent games.

After showing a bit too much difficulty in previous matches, Jannik Sinner immediately shifted into high gear, closing out the first set 6-4. In that match as well, the decisive break came in the seventh game: Brooksby lost the game on his own serve, and from there Sinner pulled away without much trouble.

Jannik Sinner advanced to the third round of Wimbledon by defeating, in order, Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic 4-6, 6-3, 6(6)-7, 6-2, 6-3, and Portugal’s Nuno Borges 7-6(4), 7-6(2), 6-4: two intense and difficult matches for the South Tyrolean, who had to shake off some rust after a month without official matches following Roland Garros (with only one exhibition match in between, which he played and won against Cameron Norrie).

Jenson Brooksby, meanwhile, had previously defeated Australian Aleksandar Vukic 7-6(7), 6-1, 6-1 and Peruvian Ignacio Buse 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. Ranked No. 81 in the ATP rankings, Brooksby has 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.