1-6 – GAME, SET AND MATCH – The last game for the 12 times king of Paris is a formality: Nadal in the semifinals with a dry game to zero, Sinner will review the game over and over again but has little to regret.
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1-5 – We are approaching the epilogue of the match. Nadal holds the serve at 15.
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Ore 1.21 – 2h45 ‘of play.
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1-4 – Sinner manages to recover in the fifth game. Late, perhaps, but he shows Nadal that he hasn’t given up by closing the game with the second ace of his game (zero).
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0-4 – Nadal stronger, especially at the net, but the young South Tyrolean fights on every ball as taught by the Bordighera school. And the third game for Rafa, anything but a joke. Ten minutes to fold Sinner.
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Ore 1:06 – The first three games of the set have gone in less than 15 ‘, the game in progress from 2h29’. We need Nadal.
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0-3 – Sinner commits two consecutive double fouls, for, and Nadal escapes to zero.
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Ore 1.03 – Coach Riccardo Piatti spurs his pupil.
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0-2 – The Italian’s enthusiasm for not waning, and in the second game he manages to recover three points from the expert champion, 12 victories on this clay, even if it is not enough to break the serve.
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0-1 – Nadal immediately wins the 40-15 break.
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00.52 – We start again with Sinner’s service.
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00.51– After 2h12 ‘Nadal therefore leads by two sets to zero, but certainly does not disfigure the young Italian, who often puts Rafa in difficulty with his power. so far an ace for Sinner, a double foul by Nadal, 7-6 break points (but 2-3 winning ones).
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4-6 SECOND SET NADAL – Sinner tries to surprise Nadal with a couple of shots from the opposite side to the one expected, but the Majorcan’s set point arrives. That Jannik cancels once, with a straight shot, but not the second.
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00.41 – Nadal now needs to take the lead by two sets
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4-5 – The ninth game is more complicated, with two chances to close wasted by Jannik and an unexpected break, thanks also to a lucky ribbon.
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4-4 – Sinner defends himself strenuously, but Nadal’s experience superior and with a straight long line closes the game. We are at two hours of gameplay.
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4-3 – Sinner also invents a Veronica who displaces Rafa, sending him against the racket holder. And then he wins the new game with a great backhand.
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3-3 – Nadal tries to play from experience, like a marpione, but Sinner cannot be said for sure that he suffers from awe. The 15 years of difference – and those of experience in the field are even more – certainly not seen even if a draw arrives.
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3-2 – The excitement for the double advantage – first time in the meeting – perhaps makes itself felt. Nadal forces Sinner’s mistakes and takes the lead 0-30. But Piatti’s pupil quickly recovered his composure. But the counterbreak arrives anyway.
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3-1 – On the serve of the Spaniard Sinner even leads 40-0, with three break points. The third the good one.
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00.07 – The match exceeds an hour and a half of play
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2-1 – In the third game Sinner yields the first two 15, breaking the strings on the second and having to change his racket. But it does not break down and returns to 30 love with the first ace of the game and then close the accounts.
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1-1 – No problem for Nadal in the second game.
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1-0 – Twice under, Jannik comes back and closes the first game of the second set.
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Ore 23.55 – Sinner opens the second game with the service.
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Ore 23.51 – To get to close the first game it took 1h13 ‘of play. No aces, a double fault for Nadal, seven break points in total, one on each side won. Sinner asks the doctor for help, but it doesn’t seem like a serious situation.
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6-7 – FIRST SET NADAL – Nadal manages with four points in a row to escape at 2-6, with tre set point, thanks in particular to the obverse. The tiebreak ends 4-7.
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6-6 – Sinner, who serves for the set, cancels Nadal’s first two break points, causing him to make an error on the second point. Not the third, for: Nadal resumes service. Tiebreak.
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23.34 – On the fourth break point, Sinner hits the score. Nadal gets his first two at 15-40 in the 12 game.
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6-5 – IL BREAK! Twice ahead of the Clay King’s serve, Jannik tries to put him under pressure and gets two break points. Nadal comes back, but Sinner wins!
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5-5 – The tenth game begins with a series of very long exchanges and with a great wickedness of the Italian at the net. And the Majorcan compliments.
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4-5 – Nadal suffers from the lunges of the South Tyrolean, but manages to take a great diagonal to 30-15 and then close the account by keeping the serve at 30.
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4-4 – Sinner has no awe and even if he goes down, he keeps his serve in the eighth game recovering from 15-30.
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3-4 – Nadal keeps his serve also in the seventh game.
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Ore 23.05 – Lob from Nadal and Sinner tries the shot from under the legs to respond. Out and 30-0 for the Spaniard.
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3-3 – Sinner’s delicious short ball to take the lead and then close the sixth game.
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2-3 – Sinner with a nice diagonal gets a palla break on 30-40, but then fails to steal the serve.
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ore 22.54 – Sinner double advantage on Nadal’s serve, 0-30.
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2-2 – There is great balance, the Italian wins the fourth game at 15.
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1-2– Nadal keeps his serve but has lost the first three points.
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Ore 22.46 – Double foul by Nadal, 40 all.
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Ore 22.44 – First 15 of the match on the opponent’s service: Sinner to break the tab for an error by Nadal, who hits the net and sends over the corridor. 15-30
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1-1 – Sinner also keeps the serve, leaving the Spaniard without points.
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Ore 22.41 – First 15 also for Sinner, Nadal sends a backhand response to the bottom.
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0-1– In 2 minutes the Majorcan wins the first game of the match keeping Jannik to zero.
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Ore 22.37 – We need Nadal and his first 15.
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Ore 22.37 – Sinner the first player born after 2000 to access the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam.
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The dream challenge begins late in the evening, the quarter-final of Roland Garros between Jannik Sinner and Rafa Nadal . The protracted for over 5 hours of the match between Diego Schwartzman and Dominik Thiem, won by the Argentine, meant that the starting time slipped until 22.40. This live match report.
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A very important challenge for the blue tennis player who has already accomplished a feat coming this far for his first time in the Paris tournament: eliminating opponents of the caliber of Goffin, Coria e Zverev.
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Sinner, 19 anni, born in Val Pusteria and transplanted to Bordighera, n75 in the world, has already achieved a record: the youngest Italian ever among the top eight in a Grand Slam. And also the first rookie in Paris to have won the quarterfinals since 2005, the last one was Nadal who then won the tournament. With Rafa they have never faced each other, except in training in Rome: the Majorcan has won Roland Garros 12 times.
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October 6, 2020 (change October 7, 2020 | 01:25)
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