Sinner immediately appeared in obvious physical difficulties. He retired after just 23 minutes, below 5-0. The Cincinnati tournament goes to the Spaniard
The game lasted just 23 minutes. Indeed, it never started. Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati tournament for the withdrawal of Jannik Sinner, on the score of 5-0 for the Spaniard in the first set. Since the early bars of the final, the physical difficulties of the world in the world have clearly appeared. Unable to force the service, inaccurate in the bottom shots that usually puts in surgical precision, especially slow in movement and not reactive. Body language said everything. Jannik was not in a position to play, it was clearly seen.
Sorry Jannik
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“I tried, I’m sorry,” as he said disconsolate to his friend-ringer after raising the white flag. He wanted to try the same, also to honor such an anticipated event, but “I’m too bad”, he reported to the medical staff who could not help but ascertain the impossibility of Jannik to continue the game. Moreover, the climatic conditions, with the temperature at 32 degrees and a high humidity rate (close to 50%), They must not have facilitated the blue who, in the end, received the embrace of Alcaraz, disappointed no less than Sinner. “Sorry Jannik”, wrote the winner of Cincinnati on the camera, with the accompanying the sad face. In the sad award ceremony, the number 1 in the world explained: “Since yesterday I did not feel well, I hoped to improve during the night but instead the conditions have worsened. I tried, I am sorry to have disappointed everyone, especially those people who today, on Monday, had to work or do something else and instead they came to follow the game”.