Ten days before Wimbledon kick off, Jannik Sinner took the door of the Halle tournament from the round of 16. The world number 1, which competed there his first grass tournament of the season, bowed in three sets against Alexander Bublik, which he had however swept in Paris three weeks ago.
Jannik Sinner is not better. Defeated after his defeat against Carlos Alcaraz in the final at Roland Garros during this anthology duel who had seen his dolphin in the standings overthrow he had benefited from three match balls in the fourth set and found himself at a game of his first title in Paris in the fifth, the world number 1 had not hidden his desire to find the courts as soon as possible Possible in the competition to try to leave behind this disillusionment almost impossible to digest.
Unfortunately for the Italian, his return to school, with his beginnings this season on grass on the menu, in Halle, is far from taking place as he had to hope. If the big absent from the American tour and then the start of the battered earth season (Editor’s note: he was serving a three -month suspension) had signed a winning return Tuesday against the modest local player Yannick Hanfmann, he nevertheless relapsed and got his feet in the German lawn from the knockout stages.
Sinner had not lost against another player than Alcaraz since last August
Faced with an Alexander Bublik whom he had spent at the reel three weeks earlier on Parisian clay in the quarterfinals, Sinner had nevertheless had nothing to fear. This is what his supporters had to say to themselves by seeing their protégé dominate once again the giant Kazakh in the first set. Unfortunately for the winner of the last Australian Open and his fans, it was spoiled afterwards. And the last two rounds turned to the advantage of the 45th world (3-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory), first player other than Alcaraz from Andrey Rublev in August 2024 in Canada to make the Italian cup drink, which can be blamed for only having converted one of its nine break balls on Thursday. Worried ten days from Wimbledon.
