New York-Jannik Sinner looked completely recovered from a recent disease when he started his American open title defense on Tuesday with a 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Vit Kopriva.
The top-ranking sinner had to stop playing in the Cincinnati final against Carlos Alcaraz on August 18 because he was sick, the US Open Mixed Doubles tournament brought out that the next day started and said he still didn’t completely feel 100 percent at the end of last week.
But he had extra time to recover with the first round races now spread over three days with the new Sunday start of the tournament. Nothing seemed wrong with the number 1 seed when he rolled through his 28-year-old Czech opponent, who made his US Open Main Draw debut, in 1 hour, 39 minutes.
“Of course very happy that I am healthy again, that we have done our best to be here in the best possible form,” said Sinner.
Sinner sometimes seemed to be disturbed by a stuck blister on his right ring finger, but the injury had no influence on his game, because his four fallen games brought his second least in a big game. (He only admitted three games in his third round match against Jiri Lehecka at the French Open.)
Sinner did not lose any of his 11 service games and won 83% of his firsts service points, which saved two breaking points.
The 24-year-old Italian earned his second Grand Slam title when he defeated Taylor Fritz last year in Flushing Meadows and then added two to the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year. He tries to join Rod Laver, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as the only men who reached the final of all four Grand Slams in the same year in the Open Era, which started in 1968.
“Amazing memories,” Sinner said about returning to New York. “It is clear that every year is different. You will hopefully start this tournament here the best possible way, what I did.”
He had won 26 straight matches on hard courts before the final of Cincinnati and expanded his win racing at Hard-Court Majors to 22 games, the sixth longest series by every man of all time.
The loom in the second round is Alexei Pofyrin, a 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) winner about Emil Ruusuvuori.
Last year, Pableyrin spread the defensive US Open Champion in Djokovic in the third round. No man ever disabled the US Open defensive champion in back-to-back for years in the open era; The last man who defeated the defending champion in back-to-back for years at every major was Sam Querrey in Wimbledon (defeated Djokovic in the third round of 2016, Andy Murray beat in the quarterfinals of 2017).
Close with Sinner while saving Tuesday was the Italian Lorenzo Musetti; The seed no. 10 needed four sets, but eventually passed France Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
In other results of other men’s singles, no. 27 DENIS SHAPOVALOV MARTON FUCSOVICS defeated right sets, while no. 19 Francisco Cerúndolo had to gather a shortage of two set before he prevailed against Matteo Arnaldi 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3. It is the first time that Cerúndolo has gathered from two sets to win a best-of-five competition.
ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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