𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼

Sinner *4-4 Zverev

Missed return but Zverev then errs for 15-all and shakes his head in self-chastisement. Swerving ace down the T, 40-15. Zverev has had 78 per cent of his first serves in, Sinner just 59 per cent.

But that is some shot from the top seed! Drop shot, Zverev slides into a sliced drop shot and Sinner gets to it and pokes it crosscourt on an acute angle.

Zverev with a lot of the court open to make a forehand and it’s wide, for deuce! The first of the match, such has been the dominance of their own service games.

How can Zverev respond under the pressure? Eesh, with a double fault. Sinner has the first break point of final… oh dear.

He’s through the shot early, the ball comes off the bottom — completely the wrong part of the racket — and soars high and wide. Deuce.

Another nasty miscue and that is ad- Zverev into the game’s seventh minute, by far the longest so far. Return wide and Zverev, eventually, holds.