The tenacity with which he avoided the third set is part of a precise plan: “If I want to have a long career I have to give the maximum in the lower possible number of tournaments and treat my body”

Journalist

12 August 2025 (modification at 3:25 pm) – MILAN

Jannik Sinner is a planned robot to last long. Last long while maintaining very high performance. Take the last game against Diallo, the one that left him unsatisfied to the point of returning to the field immediately for a training session concentrated on the service (50% of the first balls). In the tie break of the second set, the Canadian gets a set point and places a poisonous joke in the center: the blue responds with a straight on the line and cancels the spectrum of a third partial, which would have prolonged the effort and dissipated the energies. This inimitable ability to remain focused on the point and extract the maximum from the most complicated situations is not simply linked to the present. It is part of a wide -ranging plan.

objective

It is as if Sinner, who landed at number 1 in the ranking at 22 years and 9 months and still in the lead a few days after the 24th birthday, adopted a double register in all his choice: to give his best now and, at the same time, build the foundations to keep the competitive advantage acquired. In other words: dominate tennis for years and years. He explained it after having beaten a dialogue: “My goal is to play as many games as possible with the least possible number of tournaments. If I want to have a long career I sometimes need to stop, work very physically to make sure that my body continues to go”. Clear words, lucidity of thought. It is a challenge glove launched a Carlos Alcaraz which, unlike Sinner, shows ups and downs during the games on affordable paper, with the consequence of being on the field many more hours: in 2025, on 32 Spanish victories in the matches on the distance of the three sets (therefore excluding the Slam), a third (11) arrived in the third set, including that of the debut in Cincinnati, against Dzumhur.

straight

After the triumph in Wimbledon, the South Tyrolean found its favorite surface. On cement, where he must defend two consecutive titles (Cincinnati and Us Open), hit the 23rd consecutive victory tonight. Since 2000 only four players have succeeded, and what a players: Federer, Nadal, Murray and Djokovic (last to do it in 2020). Against Diallo the service was not impeccable, but the right yes. As detected by Tennis Data Innovations, in the first two matches in Cincinnati the blow made deadly in recent years (the reverse has always been part of Sinner’s DNA) has recorded impressive numbers: “Insight score” of 9.6 against Galan and 9.1 against Diallo. It is a metric that by combining all the data shows the overall performance level of that blow. Considering that the scale ranges from 0 to 10 and that the average of the circuit players is 7.5, the right sported by Jannik in these days shakes perfection.



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