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Jannik Sinner wins the ATP tournament in Sofia defeating Vasek Pospisil with a score of 6-4, 3-6, 7-6. A success that takes him to the top 40 of the world ranking – in position 37 – at 19 years, 2 months and 29 days (better than Claudio Pistolesi who did the feat at 19 years, 7 months, 18 days). A dizzying ascent completed in a couple of years: in 2018 he was number 763 in the world while in 2019 he had jumped to 78th place. First set obtained by showing confidence in his own means, in the second he has a noticeable decrease but recovers from righ now. It’s just a temporary amnesia, when it comes to his senses, he tames the Canadian’s reaction and ambition. The South Tyrolean is not wrong in the current moments of the match and exalts himself in the third set won in the tie-break. Chapeau.
What is beautiful is the stubborn triumph even when a few too many spots have brought the opponent back into play. The beauty is that in Bulgaria she was playing the first final of her career so much that for South Tyrol and for Italian tennis it was a special event: she was the youngest Blue to join her. And he made it his own. Special is the taste of a victory won on the sidelines of a game played in tears, with sudden flashes and so many mistakes but always forcing the opponent to chase. The last pull, the decisive one, was placed when he signed the lethal mini-break putting his hands in the match.
Sinner forward, Pospisil pursues. Sinner dictates the rhythm and force the punches, Pospisil is no exception. But the impression is that it is always the Italian who leads the game, who can close it without suffering. This is the leitmotif of the duel that comes at the key moment of the third set when – at 5-4 for Sinner – Pospisil slides a series of shots that lead the game to 5-5. It is a burst of pride, he will find before him a mountain to climb. The Italian’s reaction immediately restores the distance (6-5), drags Pospisil to the corner forcing him to force shots (and he succeeds) and also brings the mental advantage of having narrowed the Canadian tennis player’s turn. It is still not enough, because he loses the moment and suffers the opponent’s return: 6-6, we go to the tie break.
This is where the challenge is decided. Sinner immediately picks up the pace, Pospisil holds on. It continues like this, point by point, with the South Tyrolean that takes advantage of the service and places a mini break (4-2) with the complicity of the error (another one) of the Canadian who goes to the change of field. after a first error in the service and then a soft, inaccurate, slightly open, poorly placed forehand. Moral of the story, he finds the ball almost on top of him and hits it.
Sinner takes a breath, Pospisil is still wrong: 5-3 for the Italian serve in the most delicate phase of the tie-break. The South Tyrolean feels that victory is close and in the Canadian’s serve he responds to the greats in the exchange: he closes it by closing the corner and goes to 6-3. The rest is academy and then final success.
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