Sinner in free red?
The Italian gains strength as the tournament progresses. Here are now 2 matches in a row in which he no longer drops a set!
First piece of information that you had to watch, it was obviously the head-to-head: 6-5 for Daniil but the 5 last meetings are to be put on the Italian's counter. Among these: 3 finals and 2 semi-finals. We remember their last match in Miami this year in which Daniil tried a new tactical approach by returning closer to his line and trying as much as possible to keep this position throughout the rally. Result: he himself took away the time he needed for his gestures and found himself in uncomfortable situations which led him to make many unusual mistakes. He even tried to return to his "normal" game and was quickly dominated by the superiority of Sinner in the rally who no longer even needed to finish his points at the net. Daniil is therefore currently in a strategic impasse. His natural game being ineffective against the Italian steamroller, he will have to experiment with new things without straying too far from his DNA. This is where Gilles Simon comes into play. Gilou must have studied all this carefully, he was hired exactly for this type of challenge. What will he tell us? Difficult to know. But I have two doubts. Firstly, a game changer doesn't happen with the drop of a spoon. It is the consequence of an evolution put to the test in official matches. Watching Federer with Nadal. And even if Daniil has been evolving his game for some time (the proof is with Gilou), for me the changes are not “profound” enough. Second, will he be able to implement all this? The vagaries of the match, the character of the guy, the instinct that often governs the choices of tennis players... All this leaves us with a lot of doubts, doesn't it? Ah, last thing: unlike their Australian Open final, Daniil will be physically fresh! Come on, enough talking, I'll give you my prediction below 👇


