During the stop for bad weather, Sinner first continued to warm up then gathered Cahill, Vagnozzi & Co. And he gave himself to one of his favorite hobbies
It rains in Cincinnati. First it falls light, then always stronger. Attached field, interrupted and stop syner-nannarino game that is understood will not be so short. So what to do? The response of Jannik Sinner is: a nice match at cards. The number 1 in the world, during the break for the rain, lasted 2 hours and 50 minutes, of its eighth final against Adrian Mannarino (then won 6-4 7-6), ahead of a set, brought together all his staff in the locker room for a card challenge, a new hobby after that, recently, of golf.
Sinner first continued the heating, in the hope of immediately returning to the field, but when he understood that things would go for the long ones, he called Vagnozzi, Cahill and the rest of his team in the locker room, improvising a challenge. Between amused looks and absolute tranquility, Sinner and his team have made the unnerving time of waiting pass in this way to resume the game, a simple but effective way to dilute the tension for a stop that seemed eternal. Especially for those who were spectator on television, who at the sight of Jannik committed to playing cards, understood that the match would not start again so soon …