It was a rematch of final week’s Paris Masters last, between two of the tour’s most deadly indoor laborious courtroom gamers. As soon as once more we realized that there are totally different ranges of deadly.
Jannik Sinner stretched his indoor laborious courtroom profitable streak to 27 on Monday night in Turin, taking out eight-ranked Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-5, 6-1.
“It was a really powerful match till 6-5,” Sinner mentioned. “He performed some very aggressive tennis so I’m very completely satisfied that I used to be capable of overcome a tricky check at this time.”
If Sinner can get by way of the group section unscathed he’ll tie Roger Federer for the fifth-longest indoor laborious courtroom profitable streak in ATP historical past.
Sinner, the defending champion on the ATP Finals, improved to 4-0 in opposition to the Canadian in 2025, and 4-2 general in opposition to the Montreal native.
It was a good contest, no less than for some time…
Bodily struggles began to set in late within the opening set, and Sinner managed to take benefit, engineering a break from 30-0 down within the twelfth recreation of the set to assert the opening set, 7-5 in 58 minutes.
Auger-Aliassime was seen grabbing his left calf between factors late within the set, and has had latest struggles along with his left knee.
Sinner was dominant within the opening set behind his serve, profitable all 21 first-serve factors and capturing 24 of 27 factors on serve within the set.
Worst fears have been realized because the second set started. It grew to become apparent that no matter was hampering Auger-Aliassime wasn’t going away. The concern weighed him down and he tried to play quick-strike tennis to no avail, as Sinner shortly broke for 2-0 when a high-risk Auger-Aliassime forehand flew broad.
After Sinner held for 7-5, 3-0 Auger-Aliassime met with medical doctors on courtroom and had the harm assessed.
“I can’t push,” he mentioned, referring to upward thrust on his serve, because the doctor labored with the left calf and initiated a medical timeout.
Auger-Aliassime soldiered on however the double-break quickly got here when Auger-Aliassime dumped a volley into the web giving Sinner the 5-1 lead in set two.
The Italian took it from there, closing out his 54th win of the season in opposition to simply six losses with an ace in a single hour and 40 minutes.
“I hope that it’s nothing too critical,” Sinner mentioned of Auger-Aliassime. “I want him a really speedy restoration.”
Sinner completed with 16 winners in opposition to 13 unforced errors, whereas Auger-Aliassime managed 17 winners and 33 unforced. Sinner received 32 of 36 first-serve factors, by no means confronted a break piont and wanted solely three aces.
Sinner strikes to the highest of the Bjorn Borg group within the ATP Finals standings, forward of Alexander Zverev on the energy of video games.
