Jannik Sinner retired from Masters 1000 of Paris Bercy. Too little time to recover from the fatigue of yesterday’s match, which actually ended today, at 2.37 last night. The three sets against the American McDonald left their mark, and moreover the blue had already made it clear: “Let’s see how I’ll feel when I wake up”.
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No taking risks
The sense is that Sinner did very well: by returning to the field, in addition to tiredness, he would also have run the risk of injuries just on the eve of the ATP Finals in Turinthe key event (along with Davis Cup) of the final part of the season. He therefore benefits from it From Minaur, the opponent he should have faced who therefore advances to the quarterfinals. The Australian has never beaten the Italian number one.
Wrong programming
The controversy, debate or discussion about the times and programming of evening matches remains. Objectively, just imagining having two players (Rune and Thiem) enter the field at 10pm is perplexing, let alone Sinner and McDonald at midnight. We are also talking about tournaments that don’t have a rest day (like the Slams), so it really becomes tiring, if not impossible, to recover your energy.
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Bertolucci: “Maybe now someone will open their eyes”
If Sinner underlined in his own way, with his grace (and coach Cahill, who is with him in Paris, held the line), it is in Italy that the accusatory index was raised. “On the one hand it’s very sad, because it would have been important to have him on the pitch today, on the other I’m happy because it means that perhaps someone will open their eyes and understand that they have committed a sporting injustice” he commented Paolo Bertoluccie Adriano Panatta he supported him: “Sinner is right, you can’t play at 2.30 in the morning. They have to change, it’s not the first time this has happened. These are times that don’t exist because they unbalance the metabolism.”
A calendar to review
The issue of game times has always caused athletes and tournaments to argue. The latter defend themselves by saying that they must bring together more interests, from the public to television, but objectively the calendar issue must become the subject of reform: just think of the turn of Davis Cup scheduled immediately after the US Open which led to the defections of Sinner, but also of Alcaraz and other less well-known colleagues.
Zverev’s record
The record, negative, still remains at Zverev who, in 2022, beat the American Jenson Brooksby at the Acapulco tournament, at the end of a match that ended at 4.54 in the morning. From memory we remember other matches in the history of tennis that ended after three in the morning, the last one dates back to the 2008 Australian Open, when the Australian Lleyton Hewitt beat the Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis at 4.34 in the morning.
2023-11-02 13:21:01
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