Australian Open, Sinner warms up his muscles with Tsitsipas

John

By John

Jannik Sinner is very ready to defend the title he won last year at the Australian Open. The world number 1 returned to the Rod Laver Arena in the morning for the exhibition match against Stefanos Tsitsipas (no. 11 ATP), as part of the AO Opening Week presented by Herald Sun. Good feelings for the Italian born in 2001, who won in two sets – 6-3 7-6(5) – always keeping the reins of the match firmly in hand. Already on Tuesday, Sinner had beaten – again in an exhibition – the Australian Alexei Popyrin with a score of 6-4 7-6(2), and today he repeated it against a tennis player, the Greek, who on that same court, in the first Slam of the year, he had defeated him both in the 2022 quarter-finals and in the 2023 round of 16.