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Wimbledon 2025 Men’s Day 2
Jannik Sinner marked his return to Wimbledon by laying on a 6-4, 6-3, 6-0 demolition job on fellow Italian Luca Nardi on Tuesday, with the top seed sprinting into the second round.
Sinner, who went 1-1 on grass last week in Halle, whipped his game into shape as he destroyed his compatriot in one and three-quarter hours.
The world No. 1 added that he has gotten past memories of his five-set Roland Garros title loss to Carlos Alcaraz, one of the more iconic recent finals.
“I’m happy how I ended this match (6-0). It gives me confidence to start the next one.
“This is a new tournament with new chances and new challenges. I’m happy about today and will try to keep going.”
The seed said he and his team worked on his serving in recent sessions. “In the important moments I served very well.
“We struggled in the beginning of the match with not so many rallies. I tried to step up and hit through the ball.
“Playing another Italian is unfortunate as only one of us can go through – I’m happy it was me”
Lorenzo Sonego followed the winning Sinner template on another hot and sunny summer day, with the Italian defeating Portuguese qualifier Jaime Faria 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
Italy’s seventh seed and 2024 semi-finalist Lorenzo Musetti was beaten, going down 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 to Georgian qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili.
Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech accounted for third seed Alexander Zverev as he won a match halted by darkness the night before, defeating the German 7-6 (3), 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4 in a combined four and three-quarter hours.
The winner had lost all seven of his previous matches against top five opponents before upsetting Zverev.
“What a moment, such emotions,,” an overwhelmed winner said. “It starts with the crowd (support).
“My legs are still shaking, I’m happy the match is finished. I slept about six hours last night. It was very difficult.”
British fourth seed Jack Draper had a lighter workday as he advanced 6-2, 6-2, 2-1 when Argentine opponent Sebastien Baez retired.
Fifth seed Taylor Fritz finished off a match controversially stopped with 40 minutes remaining on Monday night prior to the l1 p.m. Wimbledon cut-off time
The American who wanted to play on but was denied, concluded a 6-7 (6), 6-7 (8), 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-4 win, his fourth from two sets to love down.
His 13th-seeded compatriot Tommy Paul, a quarter-finalist last year, spoiled the Grand Slam debut of British youngster Johannus Monday, eliminating the big-serving lefty 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.
“It’s not too often in a Slam you play a guy that you don’t have a lot of experience,” he said. “But I talked to some people, heard some things about him, I knew he was a big lefty with a pretty good serve.
“I knew I had to take care of my service games. He had a couple of break points early in the match. I was happy that I got those, because it could have gotten a little bit interesting.
“But after that I really took care of my service games and got the breaks early in sets and kind of kept it rolling.”
Seven-time champion and sixth seed Novak Djokovic crushed Alexandre Muller of France to make a fast start, winning 6-1, 6-7(9) 6-2, 6-2
The 38-year-old Serb showed why he has never lost in the first round here as he dominated the match delayed until evening by slow play on Centre Court.
Alexander Bublik learned that his Halle title counted for little as he took a 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 loss to Spaniard Jaume Munar.
Alex Michelsen of the US lost to Serb Miomir Kecmanovic in a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (6) marathon over three and a quarter hours.
Alex de Minaur began making amends for a poor French Open and a fist-round loss last month on grass at Queen’s, with the Australian overcoming Spain’s Roberto Caraballes Baena 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (2).
“Whether I’m back to my best, I can only show that by playing the tennis. I’mgoing to give myself the best chance to perform.
“Today I thought there was some great tennis. I just kept the same momentum I’ve had throughout the whole practice week, playing some really good stuff the
way I want to be playing, and ultimately a really, really good, solid performance.”
Two-time champion Casper Ruud had to work for more than two and a half hours to overcome Jaime Faria, the Portuguese who put out Stan Wawrinka in the first round at the Gstaad Swiss Open on Thursday.
Faria was riding the momentum from Tuesday’s defeat of three-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka, set to retire this season and beaten in an opening match at his home venue.
Faria had his eye on a second upset as he faced Ruud, who lifted the trophy at this elite alpine village in 2021 and 2022.
Ruud ahd to dodge a bullet and mount a comeback to get through the second-round test against the Portuguese.
After dropping the opening set in a tiebreaker, Ruud played patiently as Faria saved five break points in the sixth game of the second set before failing on the sixth.
Ruud then pulled away for a 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-2 victory, his first since Roland Garros.
“Sometimes it is hard to say when you get a good feeling and you start to win some games in a row,” the winner said.
“You try from the first game to the last, but suddenly something clicked in the middle of the second for me, luckily.”
He added: “I had to really fight hard and if I played one bad game in the second and he serves well, it could be over and it would be time to go home. But luckily I can extend the stay.”
The Scandinavian could join Spaniards Sergi Bruguera and Alex Corretja as three-time winners in the Alps, with Ruud now standing 10-1 here over his career.
Stefanost Tsitsipas said he slept soundly prior to finishing off a darkness-interrupted match on Thursday as he eliminated local Jerome Kym at the Gstaad Swiss Open.
The Greek who once cracked third in the world and the 186th-ranked Swiss returned to the clay after darkness on Wednesday night left them hanging at 5-all in the third set.
Tsitsipas revved up his game from the resumption to emerge into the quarter-finals 6-4, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5).
The second seed now standing 85th in the world after several poor seasons and a split with his father as his coach, said getting his rest was not a problem after the interruption.
“It was strange going to bed and not being finished. I visualised what I wanted to do, my shot patterns.
“It worked out pretty well.
“I had a good night’s sleep, I was not too stressed and I recovered to get ready for the continuation.”
After saving break points in the first game on Thursday, Tsitsipas triumphed in the final-set tiebreaker
“I’m relieved I was able to save a couple of break points.. I put my game together and made it )victory) happen again.”
The Greek now faces off against Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech for a semi-final spot.
“I’m expecting a lot of big serves, the altitude (1050m) helps. I’ll try to build consistency around my own serve.”
Stefanos Tsitsipas was handed a reprieve due to fading light with his second round match at the Swiss Open Gstaad stopped with the Greek deadlocked with local Jerome Kym 6-4, 6-7 (2), 5-5.
The math had to be halted as night fell and electronic linecalling computers could not read the path of the ball on the clay in contrast to humans who could have carried on for a few additional minutes..
The 27-year-old Tsitsipas was taking the worst of it in the concluding stage after a promising start.against a journeyman opponent ranked 186.
Tsitsipas, his ranking down to 85th after once standing third in the world, lashed out verbally in the last few games, apparently frustrated with his racquet reactions.
The Greek was quick to make his point of an overnight stoppage to the chair umpire while Kym – who reached 5-all with a love service hold – left the court with a defiant fist pump for his public in this alpine resort village.
The cutoff came after just over two hours of play, with the contest to be concluded on Thursday. The winner reaches the Friday quarter-finals.
Tsitsipas produced his last notable result in April with a fourth-round showing at the Madrid Masters,
He is aiming for his second quarter-final of the season after Doha in February and his 2025 Barcelona 15 months ago.
Tsitsipas stands 10-1 vs. players ranked outside the top 100 this season with a sole loss to No. 104 Italian Matteo Arnaldi at the Roland Garros second round.
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