Party at the Inalpi Arena in Turin, which received its hero Jannik Sinner accompanied by loud applause. The 13,000 fans who filled the venue chanted the name of the world number one, as they witnessed the dominance of their favorite tennis player.
The debut of Jannik Sinner, 23 years old, in his third Masters final was huge. He riddled the only debutant of this edition, the Australian Alex de Minaur25 years old and number 8.
The sinner won 6-3 and 6-4 in 1h.25′, and on Tuesday he will be looking to make a decisive move against the American. Taylor Fritzthe other winner on the opening day of the Ilie Nastase Group, at the expense of the Russian Daniel Medvedev6-4 and 6-3.
De Minaur made the first break of the match, taking a 2-1 lead on the scoreboard. This certainly woke up Sinner, who in a flash scored four games in a row to gain momentum towards an undisputed victory.
The sentence came in the fifth game of the second set, when at 0-40 the game had to be stopped due to the weakness of a fan, which has to be watched for four minutes. The sinner made a gesture carrying a bottle of water, which earned another round of applause from the local fans.
As expected, because Sinner always beats De Minaur: 8-0, 18-1 in sets. And the transalpine came on a roll, even though he was out of the circuit for a month after missing Paris Bercy due to an illness. It was his seventh straight win, he has dominated 22 of his last 23 games.
Finalist in 2023, wants to succeed the absent champion, the Serbian Novak Djokovic. There’s no better way to start. Quickly. He closed it with an ‘ace’, the eighth of his tally.
Source: La Verdad
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