Jannik Sinner does not disappoint in his debut at the ‘China Open’ATP 500 tournament worth 3,720,165 dollars that is being played on the hard courts of the Olympic Green Tennis Center in Beijing. The South Tyrolean, world number 1, beats the Chilean Nicolas Jarry, world number 28, in three sets with a score of 4-6 6-3 6-1. The South Tyrolean starts to warm up slowly and gives up the first set to his opponent after suffering a break in the seventh game. In the second, Sinner starts to play like his peers and immediately takes a 3-0 lead, to close the set 6-3. In the third and decisive set, it is a monologue by Sinner (who also has to recover from 0-40 to 4-1) who closes 6-1 with three breaks.
Forward also Cocciaretto
The Chinese campaign starts off well Elizabeth Cocciaretto. The 23-year-old from the Marche region prevails over Australian Arina Rodionova (number 114 WTA) in three sets with a score of 4-6 6-4 6-3. Almost two and a half hours of play for the Italian, who was good at coming back in a match that saw her lose the first set and find herself a break down in the decisive partial. In the end, the instant counter-break gave the final twist to the inertia of a match that had remained in the balance for a long time in which, more than the flashes and feats, the unforced errors conceded by the two contenders in its crucial phases ended up weighing. For Cocciaretto now the Belgian Elise Mertens, number 24 seed: previous matches tied (1-1) with the Italian who won in the most recent one, the one played this year in Dubai.
I’m out of luck
A good first set is not enough Lorenzo Sonego. The Turin native exits in his debut at the China Open. The Turin native, winner this year in Winston Salem, was defeated 1-6 6-2 6-3 by Adrian Mannarino, who becomes the 12th Frenchman in the Open era to reach 300 career victories on the major circuit. In the second round, Mannarino will face the winner of the match between Gaël Monfils and the Russian Daniil Medvedev.
Also making their debuts in Beijing today are Jannik Sinner, who in the morning will face Nicholas Jarry and, in the afternoon, Flavio Cobolli who will meet for the first time the Kazakh Alexander Bublik, ATP no. 26 and eighth seed.