Jannik takes an hour and 37 minutes to overcome the Czech (n.89 in the world) 6-1 6-1 6-2. It’s his fastest victory in New York “I worked a lot to recover after Cincinnati”
Despite the color of the chosen suit for this US Open of Rust, Jannik Sinner has shown that he did not even have a little. The aftermath of the influence that in Cincinnati prevented him from playing the final against Carlos Alcaraz, with the withdrawal below 5-0 and the sad admission “I can’t do it”, are only a faded memory.
The number 1 in the world liquidated the 28-year-old Czech Vit Kopriva 6-1 6-2 in less than two hours (1 hour and 37 ‘, his fastest victory in Flushing Meadows, 84 points to 47) without wasting a drop of sweat. The goal is to keep the title by becoming the second tennis player in history to defend Australian Open and US Open one year after the other. New York is hard stuff, and the last to confirm himself champion, succeeding for five years in a row, from 2004 to 2008, was Roger Federer: “The atmosphere is beautiful – he said – I am happy to be fine again. We did everything possible to be in the best of the condition. Here I have great memories, but as you know every year it is difficult”.
The game
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The strip of wins on concrete in the Slam reaches 22 and the Australian Popyrin awaits him in the next round, who beat the Finn Emil Rusuvuori in three sets. Of the match there is little to tell, too much the distance between the South Tyrolean champion and the number 89 in the world that only on the ending, perhaps also for a little carelessness, makes some mistakes and too much and in the seventh game offers rival the hope of recovering a break. The two Czech Chances are swept away by as many winning services and on 5-2 calls the physio to get the glue of a taping from the hand removed. No problem, Sinner earns match point on the Kopriva service that cancels the first but gives in to the second.
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