Jannik Sinner: Atmane is swaggering, proclaims on the'Azure

Jannik Sinner will face in the semifinals in Cincinnati the French outsider Terence Atmane, an insidious and surprising left-hander capable of eliminating top-ranked tennis players such as Holger Rune, Taylor Fritz, Joao Fonseca and Flavio Cobolli. The transalpine tennis player, number 136 in the world, also promises a show against Azzurro: “I don&#8220t put limits on myself. I can beat Jannik Sinner, I wouldn”t be here if I didn”t believe it,&#8221 he told L’Equipe.

“I can&#8217t wait until Saturday for the semifinal. It will be a great game. He is a person with two arms and two legs, like me. He is No. 1 in the world, he wins Slams, congratulations to him. It will be interesting for me: after beating number 4 and number 9, I will be able to measure myself against number 1”.

“I will face him like the other matches because in any case, I have nothing to lose and it has been like that since the’beginning of the tournament, nothing will change on Saturday”. Atmane feels great confidence: “With Rune I was doing so well that whoever was there’I would have beaten anyway”.

“The first set was stratospheric, I played at such a high level that I think it would have gone the same way with anyone else there on the other side of the net. It will be my job to do what it takes to make it happen again”.