Jannik Sinner succumbs in fifth set, Roland Garros final goes Carlos Alcaraz
Jannik Sinner succumbs in fifth set, Roland Garros final goes Carlos Alcaraz
At the end of 4 hours and 9 minutes of great battle Jannik Sinner must surrender to Carlos Alcaraz in the first semifinal of the men’s singles at Roland Garros.
2-6 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-3 the score in favor of the Spaniard who now awaits the winner of the second semifinal between Norway’s Casper Ruud and Germany’s Alexander Zverev, and should he win the tournament he would rise to world No. 2 right behind Jannik.
The start of the first set è all in favor of Jannik who flew to 4-0 by holding serve twice to zero. At 4-1 Sinner gave back one of the two break leads but soon after took it back and closed out the first set on the third set point.
The South Tyrolean also started the second set great by going up 2-0 but here suddenly his light went out: Alcaraz completely reversed the situation by going up 5-2 and closing shortly afterwards the set at the first opportunity.
In the third set the first to break è the Murcian: Sinner saves from 15-40 but then has to surrender at the third break ball. However, he immediately recovers the disadvantage in the next game and on 2-2 saves four break balls by recovering again from 15-40.
È then he makes the break on 3-2 and maintains the lead until the conclusion of the partial set. In the fourth set there are no eak balls until 5-4 for Alcaraz who has one that è also a set point, after Sinner missed on 30-15 a very easy rebound smash, and with a backhand winner the Spaniard takes the match to the fifth set.
The decisive partial starts badly for Jannik who on 0-1 cancels a break ball with a short ball but on the second one he canò nothing. Unfortunately Jannik can no longer recover the disadvantage, on 5-3 Carlos misses two match points but on the third Sinner sends out a forehand in recovery.
Thus fades; Jannik’s dream of being the first Italian in the final at Roland Garros 48 years after Adriano Panatta. Alcaraz, on the other hand, è the twelfth Spaniard to get there, è in his third Slam final (the other two, US Open 2022 and Wimbledon 2023, he won) and canò give his country its 23° triumph on Parisian clay after Rafael Nadalè’s 14 and 21 years after his coach Juan Carlos Ferreroè’s in 2003.
