But this exchange left its mark on the two players who both requested a medical timeout in the third set. Trembling and very pale, Jannik Sinner even seemed on the verge of giving up. “I really suffered.”commented the title holder after the meeting, “I kept in mind that Rune had already played some very long matches, so I tried to stay mentally in it.”
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Sinner also returned to his less good performance in the third set: “I woke up this morning with a very strange feeling. I knew I was going to struggle because I wasn’t feeling very well. I spoke to the doctor before going on court. I was a little dizzy sometimes.”
“During the timeout I tried to recover physically, I put cold water on my head and that helped me a lot,” concluded the one who ultimately won nine of the last twelve games after the interruption.
