The Italian had enjoyed an imperious run on clay, winning titles in Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome in the build-up to Roland-Garros and had been near-universally expected to seal the title in Paris.<\/p>\n
But he struggled with cramp when 6-3 6-2 5-1 up against Juan Manuel Cerundolo and said he felt dizzy and nauseous, with his body breaking down as he lost 15 points in a row and the temperature climbed to 32 degrees amid a heatwave.<\/p>\n
His 30-match winning streak came to a sudden end as Cerundolo pulled clear, winning 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1, while Sinner said afterwards he was \u201cvery low on energy\u201d. <\/p>\n
Speaking on TNT Sports coverage, Agassi said there was \u201cno excuse\u201d for him to \u201chit a wall\u201d so soon into the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cSinner going out was huge, and I don\u2019t know if you called him out on that enough,\u201d the American told his fellow pundits. \u201cI had a body clock of about four hours when I played, and if you gave me hot conditions, it dropped to like, three-45, three-50, it didn\u2019t change a lot. <\/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 in an hour 45… there\u2019s a difference between being fit and being prepared. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have to point at a flaw in that kind of preparation, because there\u2019s something you can do about that. It\u2019s not that that dude doesn\u2019t work hard, that he\u2019s not fit. He was one game away [from reaching the third round] and the whole draw opened up. We all thought we\u2019d see him here, maybe not even losing a set.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Sinner struggled to move after first experiencing pain in the third set (AP)<\/p>\n
Sinner spurned three championship points in the final against Carlos Alcaraz last year, ultimately losing a five-set thriller, and had been expected to avenge that defeat – particularly in the Spaniard\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n
But when he has struggled this season it has tended to be in combination with hot conditions: he was in physical difficulty against Eliot Spizzirri at the Australian Open in January, before the roof was closed due to soaring temperatures and he regrouped to win the match.<\/p>\n
Agassi continued: \u201cI\u2019m sure he has a staff of doctors and people but repeating the same thing twice and expecting different results… he needs to figure out what to change. He may need to bring somebody in. It\u2019s got to be some form of hydration issue. <\/p>\n
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Sinner cooled himself with towels and ice during breaks (Getty)<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore I went out there in Australia and played three out of five in hot conditions, I\u2019m doing 10, 12 litres of water, you have to force it. It\u2019s better to have it in you and not need it, than need it and not have it. I question his intake and if he\u2019s doing it properly. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe can play for five and a half hours, he\u2019s proven it, he\u2019s the best player on the planet right now. But I also know there\u2019s no excuse for him to run into a wall at an hour 45.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agassi, who won the French Open in 1999, echoed other comments that the Italian\u2019s surprise exit contributed to tension in the rest of the men\u2019s draw, with the players aware that the absence of the two top players has provided their best opportunity to win a major. <\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe nerves now are classic. They\u2019re starting to bring in an element that you love watching, tennis does have nerves and I think nerves are taking centre stage now and we\u2019re maybe going to see some tennis along with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[207181,811,158271,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-french-open-tennis","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-juan-manuel-cerundolo","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}