The worst possible ending.
When it is an injury that beats you and not your opponent.
Jannik Sinner left the stage in the round of 16 of Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam of 2022, taking place on the Parisian clay court.
In the match that closed the program on Court Suzanne Lenglen, the 20-year-old from Sesto Pusteria, n.12 in the ranking and 11 in the seeding, the only blue left in the men's tournament, gave the green light to the Russian Andrey Rublev, n.7 in the ranking and of seeding, retiring at the beginning of the third set on the score of 1-6, 6-4, 2-0 in favor of the 24-year-old from Moscow.
Jannik was ahead 2-1 in the previous games: the 24-year-old from Moscow had won the first, in the round of 16 in Vienna 2020 (fast indoor) when the South Tyrolean retired after only three games due to a problem of blisters on his feet, while the
Alto Adige had imposed himself in the quarterfinals on the clay of Barcelona in 2021 and in the second round on the clay of Monte-Carlo last April.
Sinner dominated the first set closed 6-1 for the South Tyrolean.
In the second set Rublev managed to stay in the game: at the change of field with the Russian forward 3-2, however, Jannik asked for a medical time out for the problem in his left knee accused on the eve of the third round match.
The doctor gave him a couple of lozenges: the trainer massaged his leg.
At the resumption of the match Sinner tried to shorten the exchanges as much as possible but the game suddenly turned.
Jannik moved less and less well limping from time to time, and the glances cast at coach Simone Vagnozzi in his garage were rather worried.
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However, the South Tyrolean held until the tenth game when he offered the first two break points of the match, as many set points: the first canceled it in some way, the second did not.
And the Russian took the second set for 6-4.
Sinner tried again, but when he suffered the break in the second game of the third set he decided that there was no point in continuing.
With shining eyes.
Camila Giorgi's adventure at Roland Garros, second Slam of 2022, underway on the Parisian clay, ends in the round of 16.
Martina Trevisan, on the field again on Tuesday in the quarter-finals, remains in the running.
but when he suffered the break in the second game of the third set he decided there was no point in continuing.
With shining eyes.
Camila Giorgi's adventure at Roland Garros, second Slam of 2022, underway on the Parisian clay, ends in the round of 16.
Martina Trevisan, on the field again on Tuesday in the quarter-finals, remains in the running.
but when he suffered the break in the second game of the third set he decided there was no point in continuing.
With shining eyes.
Camila Giorgi's adventure at Roland Garros, second Slam of 2022, underway on the Parisian clay, ends in the round of 16.
Martina Trevisan, on the field again on Tuesday in the quarter-finals, remains in the running.
In the match that opened the program on Court Suzanne Lenglen, the 30-year-old from Macerata, n.30 in the ranking and 28 in the seeding, was defeated 6-2 6-2, in an hour and twenty minutes of the match, by the Russian Daria Kasatkina .
Holger Rune flies to the quarterfinals.
On Philippe Chatrier the Danish "enfant terrible" showed the conviction of the greats and the maturity of the top players against Stefanos Tsitsipas, who was defeated 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-4.
On his third appearance in a Grand Slam, at 19, Rune eliminated the finalist of the last Roland Garros.
He has dropped the mask of a de facto unconvincing Tsitsipas throughout the tournament this year and on Wednesday in the quarterfinals he will face Norway's Casper Ruud who in turn eliminated the Polish Hubert Hurkacz.
you always have the feeling that you are progressing very slowly.
Instead, everything is going very fast.
I always try to improve, I want to become the best in the world, the number 1. That's what motivates me.
So what I've done so far is very good, but I'm still not satisfied. "
you always have the feeling that you are progressing very slowly.
Instead, everything is going very fast.
I always try to improve, I want to become the best in the world, the number 1. That's what motivates me.
So what I've done so far is very good, but I'm still not satisfied. "
Cilic in the quarters, eliminates Medvedev in three sets
The n.2 in the world Daniil Medvedev was eliminated in the round of 16 of Roland Garros by the Croatian Marin Cilic, currently n.23 Atp.
This is another surprise at the opening of the second week of the Paris slam after the departure of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, n.4, at the hands of the very young Danish Rune, to which is added the withdrawal of the blue Jannik Sinner due to injury.
The 26-year-old Russian, who recently returned after an operation for a 'slight hernia', had not lost even a set in the three previous matches but Cilic gave him no escape, beating him with a clear 6-2, 6-3, 6- 2.
In the quarter-finals the Croatian will face the Russian Andrey Rublev, promoted thanks to Sinner's resignation.
The other quarters include these challenges: Novak Djokovic-Rafa Nadal, Alexander Zverev-Carlos Alcaraz and Casper Ruud-Holger Rune.
