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<\/a><\/p>\nTNT analyst Agassi called out Jannik Sinner\u2019s preparation today after watching the world No.1 physically break down and spiral out of the Roland Garros second round surrendering 18 of the last 20 games to Juan Manuel Cerundolo.<\/p>\n
Agassi said today \u201cthere\u2019s no excuse for [Sinner] to run into a wall\u201d after less than two hours of play.<\/p>\n
\u201cSinner going out was huge. I don\u2019t know if you called him out enough on that, by the way,\u201d Agassi told TNT\u2019s Roland Garros panel of John Isner, Sam Querrey, Caroline Wozniacki and Adam Lefkoe. \u201cI mean, I don\u2019t know about your guys when you played or Caroline [Wozniacki] you, but I had a body clock of about four hours when I played.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if you gave me hot conditions, it dropped to about 3:45 or 3:50. I didn\u2019t change a lot. If you gave me great conditions maybe I could stretch it to 4:10 to 4:15.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut to go from him playing five-and-a-half hours last year in the finals and then having the heat tap him out in an hour and 45, there\u2019s a difference between being fit and being prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 1999 Roland Garros champion Agassi will be part of TNT Sports\u2019 U.S. coverage throughout the rest of Roland Garros this week.<\/p>\n
Sinner is coached by Darren Cahill, who previously coached Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt and Simona Halep to the world No. 1 ranking.<\/p>\n
Agassi, one of a handful of players to achieve the career Golden Slam winning all four major championships and the Olympic singles gold medal, said Sinner is fit, but seemingly unprepared for the physicality of Slams at times.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to point at a flaw in that kind of preparation because there\u2019s something you can do about that,\u201d Agassi said. \u201cIt\u2019s not that that dude doesn\u2019t work hard. It\u2019s not that he\u2019s not fit and he was one game away and the whole draw opened up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all thought we\u2019d see him not even lose a set.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leaning on his Head stick as a cane, a depleted Sinner winced as the walls closed in.<\/p>\n
Punished by brutal heat, stinging cramps and a steady Juan Manuel Cerundolo, a streaking Sinner hit the wall in Paris last Thursday.<\/p>\n
In a stunning collapse, Sinner build a commanding 6-3, 6-2, 5-1 lead only to spiral to the blistering heat and stinging pressure in a free-fall that saw Cerundolo win 18 of the final 20 games.<\/p>\n
Afterward Sinner summed up a punishing physical defeat simply: I hit the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI struggled, starting to feel very dizzy. Very low of energy,\u201d Sinner told the media in Paris. \u201cTried to serve it out, but didn\u2019t have a lot of energy.<\/p>\n
\u201cFourth set, I let it go a little bit trying to have a bit more energy in the fifth. Very important game the first one. Couldn\u2019t hold. Then it went a bit downwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, yeah, woke up this morning, didn\u2019t feel very well and tried to keep the points very short. Also in the beginning I was hitting very clean, very good, and then I just kind of hit the wall, and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the second straight Slam where Sinner struggled with heat-related illness. The fair-skinned, red-haired Italian, who stopped wearing black clothes at one point in an effort to cool his body in blistering heat, was down to American Eliot Spizzirri at the Australian Open before officials closed the retractable roof over Rod Laver Arena, which helped save Sinner.<\/p>\n
Former AO champion Agassi, said winning a Slam requires major preparation and suggested Sinner\u2019s primary problem may be a pre-match hydration issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure he has a staff of doctors and people. But I mean repeating the same thing twice and expecting a different result that\u2019s where I call a little Yahtzee on all of it,\u201d Agassi said on TNT. \u201cHe needs to figure out what to change. He may need to bring someone in. It\u2019s got to be some form of hydration issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know before I went out there in Australia and played in best three-out-of-five in hot conditions, I\u2019m drinking 10 to 12 liters of water within 24 hours of that match, plus my carb ratio, four to one protein over carbs, you know that sort of deal. But you have to force it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s better to have it in you and not need it than to need it and not have it. I question his intake and if he\u2019s doing it properly.\u00a0 I know nothing about his preparation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know he can play for five-and-a-half hours\u2014he\u2019s proven it\u2014I know he\u2019s the best player on the planet right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I also know there\u2019s no excuse for him to run into a wall at one hour, 45 [minutes].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, June 4, 2026Photo credit: Matthew Stockman\/Getty At his peak, Andre Agassi played the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-716556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}