Us Open, Sinner beats Monfils: he is in the second round

Jannik immediately ahead two sets to zero. Monfils unleashes the public and comeback but at 5th he has to surrender to the 20-year-old blue

Can we call it a psychodrama? Yes. Jannik Sinner’s third round against a tough, tough, annoying one like Gael Monfils was. A match that up to the second set could have seemed like a walk and turned into a descent into hell. But Jannik put out the fire with the ice of Val Fiscalina passing 7-6 6-2 4-6 4-6 6-4 and flying to the second round like Berrettini. It is the first time that Italy has brought two players to the second week of the US Open.

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The French acrobatic, now 35 years old, has put the complete menu on the table: plays, shows, mistakes, spitefulness, and Sinner has suffered from inexperience, cheering all over for his opponent, a new experience for him that almost always has everyone on his side. part. It is not easy to manage an opponent like LaMonf, capable of absolute wonders, as of indecipherable empty passes. And yesterday the fresh spouse of Elina Svitolina (cheering in the box) kept up his habits. Flashes of genius and cold showers. But Jannik can do it with the cold.

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The match

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The first set starts uphill for Jannik, who loses his serve in the 11th game then immediately adjusts him to reach the tie break which he masterfully manages for the 1-0. Second set in which Lamonf disappears from the radar between double fouls and straight out of a meter. Jannik takes advantage of it, at times incredulous, who capitalizes on the break points in the 5th and 8th game to close the second set 6-2. But in the third Gael decides to return to play as he should, he does it for the show and to please the crowd, and he earns three break points that Sinner cancels, without being influenced too much by the roars of the Armstrong. You should never give up on the Frenchman, who pulls full arm, gases, wins two balls for the counterbreak and hangs up the South Tyrolean, keeps the next serve at zero and in the end, with another break, takes home the set extending the life.

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Psychodrama

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But Sinner reacts, takes the field in the fourth set with anger and stretches up to 4-0. To chill out? Never, because the public exalts Monfils who reappears in the limelight and recovers the two breaks in the throes of exaltation with Sinner making too many mistakes. The Frenchman won five consecutive games and Jannik from the comfort zone of 4-0 finds himself serving to stay in the set. Nothing to do, typhoon Monfils swallows the safety of the South Tyrolean who has a set already won out of his hand. Enter the locker room throwing punches and elbows in the corridor, Jannik, who just doesn’t want to know about losing like this. He enters the field in the 5th set and immediately takes a break, keeps his serve and climbs 2-0. But he is still not sure, especially in his shifts, with the former struggling to get in and Monfils lurking. Mistakes and fear arrive, and a break point that Sinner saves with personality and in turn earns a ball for the 5-2. But that’s not what. Monfils keeps his serve and Jannik still risks 0-30. He also holds the serve and goes 5-3. We still have to fight but he closes it, he is in the second round. He will find the winner between Zvereve and Sock.

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