In Halle Jannik Sinner drops one more set but lands in the quarterfinals

In Halle Jannik Sinner drops one more set but lands in the quarterfinals

In the second round of the’ATP 250 on the German grass in Halle Jannik Sinner, world number 1, defeated by dropping one set the number 45, Fabian Marozsan of Hungary, with a score of 6-4 6-7 6-3 in two hours and 15 minutes of play.

The world number 1 snatched service from his opponent at 1-1 on the fourth chance after going up 0-40, but soon after è forced to return the break. The decisive break Jannik makes it on 4-4 and in the next game closes the first set by holding serve at 15.

In the second set no break point until 5-5, when Sinner goes 15-40 on Marozsan’s serve but fails to take advantage of the two chances. It goes to the tie-break which is dominated by Marozsan, who goes to 6-2, misses two set points but the third è the good one.

The third set begins with a break in Jannik’s favor in the second game, then the South Tyrolean doesn’t exploit three set points for 5-1 but the fourth he converts and goes to serve for the match ahead by two breaks.

However, he loses serve to nil, in the next game he has two match points but does not break them, then serves a second time for the match and this time he wins the game to nil ending the match. Now in the quarters Jannik awaits the winner between Germany’s Jan Lennard Struff and Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas.