After the victory against Rune in the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati, the Frenchman Térence Atmane signed the camera by writing “Paradox of firm?!”. The phrase recalls the question “If the aliens exist, where are they?”, Used in an ironic sense: the “alien” in tennis is there, and it is Jannik Sinner, his next opponent in the semifinal. With that gesture Atmane wanted to amaze, showing intelligence and self -irony about being a surprise “sprouted from nothing” himself.
