World No. 2 Jannik Sinner has admitted that he got “lucky” that the heat rule kicked in when it did. The Italian battled back from a set down in sets two, three and four to beat Eliot Spizzirri 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-4 after struggling with cramps and calling the physio.<\/p>\n
Play was halted early in the third set so the roof could be shut. The players were also given a 10-minute off-court break before set four.<\/p>\n
And Sinner told the crowd: “I struggled physically a bit today. We saw this. I got lucky with the heat rule, they closed the roof. I took my time, and as the time passed, I felt better and better, and very happy about this performance.<\/p>\n
“Looking back, in every big tournament, I\u2019ve had some really tough matches. Hopefully this can give me some positives for the next round, starting with a good mentality again, and then we see what\u2019s coming. But I\u2019m really, really happy. Thanks for the support, it helped me a lot today, thank you.<\/p>\n
“[I struggled with] many things. It started with the leg, then it got into the arm, so I was cramping a bit all over. This is sport, I know this is an area where I need to improve, which is a positive thing. We try to work every day, I have a great team behind me, pushing me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No. 2 Jannik Sinner has admitted that he got “lucky” that the heat rule kicked in when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[4909,13832,64,63,6571,223514,227169,147811,75033,962,754,3592,85,747,68384,750,52040,26599],"class_list":["post-434728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-atp-tour","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-australian-open-live","tag-australian-open-scores","tag-cam-norrie","tag-cameron-norrie","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-live","tag-tennis-news","tag-tennis-scores","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}