Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Monday January 20, 2025 at 9:02 a.m.
Title holder, Jannik Sinner can once again hope to achieve the double in Melbourne. On Monday, the world number 1 validated his ticket to the quarter-finals by winning in four sets against Holger Rune. Victim of tremors during the match, the Italian was nevertheless scared.
Victim of feeling unwell in his shower before his match against Learner Tien on Saturday, Corentin Moutet, subsequently beaten by the young American, had suffered like many players before him from the stifling heat of Melbourne. Jannik Sinner was also very scared on Monday during his round of 16 against Holger Rune. The Italian qualified for a new quarter-final at the expense of the Dane, whom he dominated in four sets (6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2). This did not prevent the defending champion from getting a big scare at the very start of the second set. A bit like Novak Djokovic recently, Sinner suddenly suffered tremors in his hands, probably due to heat stroke. Even if the Italian sometimes seemed truly affected on a physical level beyond this sudden illness which forced him to take a medical time out as well as to place an ice pack under his t-shirt as well as a cooling scarf around his neck to try to regain his breath. Just as he did not hesitate to allow himself long breathing exercises.
Two returns to the locker room and it starts again for Sinner
He did well, because the best player in the world, without hiding afterwards that he had experienced “a strange morning”, gradually regained energy, not without going through two returns to the locker room. Perhaps disturbed by all this agitation – especially since it took another long interruption to repair the net, which had given way – Rune, moreover not at his best physically either and who also seemed to suffer the blow by moment – missed the chance offered to him when Sinner had become a viable player again. This was not the case for long. His big scare left in the rearview mirror and his striking power regained, the world number 1 unfolded at the end of the match. For the third time in the last four years, he will be present in the quarter-finals.
