By Chris Oddo | @Thefanchild | Sunday 17 May 2025
It wasn’t the way Jannik sinful He wanted to finish his two weeks in Rome. The Italian became the first finalist of men’s men in Foro Italy since 1978, but he could not join his compatriot Jasmine Paolini in the winner’s circle.
Instead he was defeated by his main rival Carlos Alcaraz;
Sinner said the opening group, which saw it avoiding two certain points with Alcaraz serving 15-40, 5-6, was deflecting. Of course it looked like that, as he could not find a way to make the second approach as Alcaraz withdrew for his fourth consecutive victory over the sinner.
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“The first set was probably a bit a player of the game,” Sinner told journalists, before expanding in the positive steps he felt he did in his first event in over three months.
“Speaking General, (I am) very happy about this tournament. It gave me hopeful to trust a good tennis in Paris too. Let’s see what is going out there.
“After three months coming here doing this result means a lot to me, a lot to my team too. We’ve worked hard to be here.”
Although it was a loss, Sinner says he will look back on the tape and try to figure out how he can make a bigger trace in his rivalry against Alcaraz.
“Surely there are some things as we have seen today that we have to improve if we want to do well in Paris,” said World No.1. “I’m closer than expected (in every way). But in another way, it was fine. It was a great week for me. Some matches (I played) too well, some matches could be better. But that’s tennis. It is a lot of ups and downs.
“Everything everything together. It was a good, good tournament.”
