The reigning champion Jannik Sinner had a memorable match in the third round of Cincinnati Open, when he faced a rare situation in his career.
In the just ended, in the second game of Set 2 in the confrontation between Jannik Sinner and Gabriel Diallo, a fire alarm rang from the 1899 Club. After a few minutes of interruption, the two players decided to play between the loud sound and flashing lights, playing four points immediately before the alarm stopped. Finally, Sinner ended the match with a victory of 6-2, 7-6 (6), saving a set with excellent hand-to-hand serve in the tie-break series.
“It is an extremely difficult working day. He serve very well, especially in set two … If you do not play well in such situations, you can completely lose,” the world's No. 1 player shared.
Sinner's match was delayed from the starting time due to the competition between Taylor Fritz and Lorenzo Sonego late, which was interrupted 75 minutes due to power outages.
In the first encounter with a 2m03 tall tennis player, 35th in the world, Sinner lost the first two games but won six games to close Set 1 with a score of 6-2.
Sang 2, Diallo based on a strong serve to pull the match into the tie-break series, but only succeeded in 2/7 times the serve one of the decisions. The whole match, he only won 5/32 points when serve two before the champion of four Grand Slam tournaments.
Diallo had the opportunity to end the set when leading 6-5 in Tie-Break, but the hand-to-hand serve like Sinner's shot defeated him.
Sinner currently owns a series of 22 consecutive victories on the hard pitch since the defeat against Carlos Alcaraz in the Beijing final last October. He also won 46 consecutive matches against the opponents outside the top 20 on the hard pitch, since the defeat of Dusan Lajovic (66th in the world) in Cincinnati two years ago.
Diallo, who used to play university tennis at the University of Kentucky (just two hours away from Lindner Family Tennis Center), recorded 10 ACEs but made up to 10 double errors – the highest number of career, when trying to surprise Sinner.
Holding the world's No. 1 for 61 consecutive weeks, Jannik Sinner will meet Tommy Paul or Adrian Mannarino in the next round. This is the first tournament he attended since the Wimbledon championship. The 23-year-old player currently has a record of 27-3 in the season and is only 300 milestones from 300 victories exactly 10 victories. Sinner also became the second tennis player to attend the ATP Finals in November, where he was the reigning champion.