Tallon Griekspoor and Jannik Sinner during Sunday’s third round of romance with top seeds Italian. It was an achievement in itself, and when the chips fell down during the two’s seventh face-to-face meeting, it was the Dutch who persisted long enough to achieve a tough victory.
Sinner took the first set but eventually withered in high temperatures and humidity, eventually dropping 6-7 (3), 7-5, 3-2 ret.
The 29-year-old’s stunning victory at the world’s No. 31 defending champion marked his best win ever and won six straight wins in the Shanghai streak above Griekspoor and his six-game winning streak.
“First of all, this is definitely not the way you want to win,” Grixpur said. “The cruel conditions in Shanghai all week. I think we were still lucky at night, but in the middle of the third set, two hours and 36 minutes. For him, sorry, I hope he recovers quickly.”
Although it ends in a weird way, the sinner is totally plagued by the catastrophic episodes of colic, it wouldn’t have ended if it weren’t for Griekspoor’s heuristic.
Even after 12 games, things died, but it was the sinner who opened the Afterburning Man in the opening ceremony tiebreak. Exhibition A is the combination that gave him a 4-1 lead. Perfect descending shot followed by the deadly cross-court forehand champion who was hit with all the harsh challenges. It is impossible to imagine a more perfect shot.
“I think the first set is a quality service for both,” Grixpur said. “I think he played an incredible tiebreak inning and he hit a few lines, very, very good.
After two points, the sinner has five fixed points to use. Griekspoor performed well and could come up with a pair, but ran a pair in the third.
Griekspoor gained a breakout point in the first game of the second set (save by Sinner) and then pulled a few rabbits out of the hat, enjoying a tough opening service in the second game, saving three breakout points. Dutch statement of intention.
The Dutch once again showed off his steel when serving 3-4 as he put on the service clinic to dig himself out of the 0-40 hole.
“I was a little lucky in the second second of serving on Love-40 and getting out of the way, and sometimes you need a little luck to win this kind of game.”
A moment later, Griekspoor had his own triple breakpoint, which he made it work, converting the first breakout in the game in two hours, while his backhand pass forced Sinner to force Sinner out of the volley.
After a moment, he served.
It seemed that the challenge was not enough for the sinner to deal with it, squeezing the planning early in the third set, severely limiting the Italians’ movement. He was obviously trembling, desperately trying to stretch and shake his right leg, bent over after a 2-2, 0-15 doubles, and he kicked a forehand at the next point again.
The situation in the game is facing south. Another double mistake and an unmand error, the sinner needs the help of a trainer to get to the chair, and now Griekspoor has a break and is ready to serve on 3-2.
He tried to get back on the court, but nothing was left. He called Griekspoor to shake hands and ended the game in two hours and 36 minutes.
Griekspoor said he felt relieved that he would have performed better after a long loss in Shanghai (seven games and two and a half months).
“I’ve had two and a half months of games and didn’t win the game,” he said. “I’ve struggled a lot in the United States and performed very badly mentally and physically. I lost the first round in Chengdu and Beijing, but my game is actually getting better and better, I feel it’s taking it slowly, and I think the first round victory was very important to me two days ago, and it’s very important to me, just to get rid of this kind of failure.
“He beat me every time, a lot of close and close games, so I was very happy with the way the second set was hanging there.”
