After being broken at 3-3 in the final set, Sinner created chances to place the match back on serve.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had my chances in the fifth set. Many break points, I couldn\u2019t use them,\u201d he said. \u201cHe came up with some great shots.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the time, he served very well \u2026 I was in the rallies a couple of times, I missed the shots, and it can happen. That\u2019s tennis, and that\u2019s how tennis works.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Friday night\u2019s loss means Sinner relinquished the opportunity to become just the fourth male in Australian Open history to win three straight singles crowns, and the first since his semifinal opponent to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
An opportunity missed to join that illustrious list, plus the fact his 19-match AO winning streak had ended, made the result even harder to swallow.<\/p>\n
\u201c[It hurts] a lot,\u201d said a deflated Sinner. \u201cIt was a very important Slam for me, knowing also the background, it can happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a good match from both of us. I had many chances, couldn\u2019t use them, and that\u2019s the outcome. It hurts for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being broken at 3-3 in the final set, Sinner created chances to place the match back on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-448208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448208","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=448208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}