Jannik Sinner is unstoppable. Yesterday the Italian overcame Daniil Medvedev in three sets (7-6 4-6 6-4) in the Vienna final and won his fourth title of the season. No Italian had ever succeeded. For Jannik it is also the tenth title, equaling Adriano Panatta. There is an extraordinary palmares in the short career of a 22-year-old of whom it can no longer be said that he will be one of the kings of world tennis since he already is, all the more so after his extraordinary success in Vienna. Extraordinary not only on a physical level because the match went on for more than three hours and was one of the highest weighted matches of the year, with every single point played by both with depth and tension worthy of a Slam final. Especially on the strategic level, while in the Beijing final Sinner had beaten the Russian (by whom he had been defeated seven consecutive times) by disrupting his plans with frequent and productive use of serve-and-volley and net coverage, in Vienna, on the other hand, Jannik won on the Russian's favorite terrain: that of pure combat to the death made up of shots thrown a handful of inches from the lines.
|