Jannik Sinner’s speech is like his tennis, always linear, extremely straight. Type without extravagances he, whom tonight, and after having fit a mood of considerable dimensions, it is difficult to expel words. Always elegant, he spits them with professionalism, but his face speaks. Long face, monochord voice, dreary tone: tremendous impact. Of the last 50 games he has played, number one has won 47 and has only lost three; The three against Alcaraz, who in you continue to incline the balance in his favor. Severe the dentellada that receives from San Cándido.
“Of course, I am happy with the tournament I have done, but this defeat hurts. There is not much more to talk about,” he says, while his subconscious travels again and again towards that critical point of the party in which everything has become crooked for him, no matter how much he will return. These three balls weigh and weigh, and who knows if they could decisively mark the rivalry that will define the new era. It happened to Roger Federer with Rafael Nadal, who founded the Swiss and led him to crying in Australia. “God, this is killing me,” said Basel, a sensitive man who easily externalized feelings. , touched, but a rock.
He holds when he spoke his head with his arm, as if everything weighed too much after an episode in which he began sweeping and ended up drowning on the shore. He recovered the land lost in the fifth set, already too late. “To reach this type of matches and for being part of it, but it hurts,” he admits. And he rebuilds: “I tried to erase each set, try to start from scratch. Of course, I am disappointed with the room and with the game points, with my serve, but then I kept mentally there. I did not give him any point.”
“When it ended, it ended,” he continues. “It is a different feeling when it ends, because you cannot change anything. At the beginning of the fifth set, things could have changed,” laments the king of the circuit, which does not attribute the defeat to the physical decline, knowing that the longest duels are still resisting. Pending account. “You cannot compare this game with any other. Physically, tired, but just like him. It has been a very physical and mental game. What can you do? Now, knowing the result, it is what there is, you cannot change it. I’m still happy for having been part of this encounter, it was long and a great level. They are things that happen, today it has happened to me,” he adds.
Sinner reappeared at the beginning of May in Rome, after having completed a period of sanction of three months after having given the previous year positive in a double control carried out in Indian Wells. It did not transcend until August, but the punishment, after the resource of the tennis player to the Court of Sports Arbitration (TAD), was not applied until February. By then it had already been done with the US Open and again the Australian Open. On his return, he impressed with his level in Rome, although there he could only endure a set to Alcaraz, again executioner. And the Spanish repeats in the resolution of Paris, where he had already overcome the previous season on the scale of the semifinals.
“I came only with a preparation tournament, so reaching the final … It is difficult to accept right now, I had many opportunities, but the sport has a positive part and today I had to live the sad one. I think I have improved as a player since last year, so we will try to continue on that path,” he tries to console himself. His throne, in any case, is not in danger. Regardless of what happens from the 30th in Wimbledon, it will defend it at least until the end of summer. Now, he will take refuge among his. “We are a very simple family. My father was not here because today I was working. Nothing of our success changes in the family,” he explains.
“, Against Rafa. Unfortunately, I have never played against Roger in Grand Slams. Winning these players costs a lot. I have the same feeling with Carlos and some other rivals. It is good to see that we can also produce tennis like this, because I think it is good for the entire movement of tennis and for the public. It would be even happier if I had here the great trophy, but I can no longer change anything,” says the runner -up, which had it there. He did not finish, and Alcaraz whips him again.
