Jannik Sinner continues the run-up to the Final in Turin to the sound of victories: the South Tyrolean winning the tournament in Antwerp wins the fourth trophy of the season, the first Italian to succeed in this exploit, the fifth in total, and with 250 points overtakes Cameron Norrie in the "Race to Turin" and will be number 11 in the world, new best ranking. The 20-year-old from Sesto Pusteria, thanks to the success in Antwerp, will retouch his "best ranking" tomorrow. Sinner in Belgium dominated the Argentine Schwartzman, winning by 62 62, in just an hour and a quarter of the game. It is precisely the fifth trophy placed on the bulletin board by Sinner - fourth in 2021: no Italian had ever managed to drop poker in a single season - out of six challenges for the title, the only one lost so far that of the "1000"of Miami last April (against Hurkacz). An important result for the tennis player followed by coach Riccardo Piatti, chasing points for the "Race to Turin", the ranking that selects the eight protagonists for the Nitto ATP Finals in November: with the 250 points of the winner from South Tyrol he overtakes Cameron Norrie in tenth place (basically ninth, given the forfeit announced well in advance by Nadal).
"I felt good from the start and I tried to push the ball against a solid opponent like Diego, and I think I succeeded enough ...", the first words of the South Tyrolean, visibly satisfied and smiling. In the first head-to-head between the two it was Sinner in the third game, thanks to some effective responses, to obtain the first chance of a break, immediately exploited with a winning long line right. Break confirmed by the blue with authority (game at zero) to go up 3-1 and then stretch further by removing the joke from Schwartzman again. The 29-year-old from Buenos Aires tried a reaction, even getting a couple of opportunities to recover one of the two breaks, canceled with a decision from the Alto Adige before pulling up on 5-1. L'blue immediately got to have two set points (the first granted with a double foul by the South American), canceled by the "Peque" who shortened to 2-5 but in the following game Sinner flew to 40-0 and in the fifth set- point has forfeited a first dominated fraction, after 40 minutes. The script did not change in the second set, which opened with a zero break by the tennis player followed by coach Riccardo Piatti, immediately consolidated (2-0). Faced with the solidity of the 20-year-old from Sesto Pusteria, Schwartzman showed signs of frustration and dropping a right into the net lost the bar for the second time, finding himself 4-1 down. Jannik in his rounds did not give the South American the slightest chance: on the first match point he committed a double fault, but the second was the good one, when the Argentine took a long shot onyet another acceleration of blue.
