The youngest and calm beat the most experienced and volcanic: Jannik Sinner (13th in the world) eliminated his Italian compatriot Fabio Fognini (57th) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, Wednesday in the 2nd round of the Masters 1000 in Rome .
In the round of 16, Sinner will face the Serbian Filip Krajinovic (54th).
After being dominated in the first set, Fognini (34) confused his opponent with his strokes of genius and his rants (a racket smashed in the purest cubist style), so as to push the game into a decisive set .
But there, Sinner (20 years old) took over to complete the meeting in 2h03.
The one whom his illustrious compatriot Nicola Pietrangeli sees integrating "
the first five in the world at the end of the year
” had already reached the round of 16 of the four Masters 1000 of the year played so far: in Indian Wells he had withdrawn before facing Kyrgios, in Miami he had climbed into the quarters where he had abandoned at 1- 4 in the first set against Cerundolo, in Monte-Carlo in the quarterfinals he lost in the tie break of the 3rd set against Zverev and in Madrid he was swept away in the 8th by Auger-Aliassime.