{"id":89643,"date":"2025-08-17T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89643\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:50:08","slug":"the-gift-terence-atmane-gave-jannik-sinner-right-before-he-lost-their-cincinnati-open-semi-final-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89643\/","title":{"rendered":"The gift Terence Atmane gave Jannik Sinner right before he lost their Cincinnati Open semi-final match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Terence Atmane has really captured the imagination over the last week in Cincinnati, storming into the semi-finals and beating players ranked far beyond him.<\/p>\n<p>Rising stars like Joao Fonseca and Flavio Cobolli were a couple of his first victims, before the Frenchman then turned his attention to more established players like Holger Rune and Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was safe from his unorthodox, unpredictable, left-handed game, with only the relentless focus of <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tennis\/jannik-sinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> enough to stop his run.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the two playing out yet another entertaining match, it was what happened before it even began that has really caught the eye.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Atmane was keen to offer Sinner a pre-match gift.<\/p>\n<p>What Terence Atmane gave Jannik Sinner right before their match<\/p>\n<p>As the two met in the tunnel before walking out onto the court, they exchanged pleasantries and shook hands.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, that is that.<\/p>\n<p>After all, these athletes are laser-focused individuals who try to let nothing break their concentration.<\/p>\n<p>Atmane clearly does not subscribe to that notion though, as he pulled out a gift for Sinner, given it was his birthday. The Italian later revealed it to be a Pok\u00e9mon card, with Atmane continuing his kindness onto the court by allowing his opponent to call the toss.<\/p>\n<p>Many will remember the 23-year-old\u2019s stellar performances on his run to the <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/cincinnati-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Open<\/a> semi-finals for years to come, but hopefully they also recall his humility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/jannik-sinner-gives-his-honest-thoughts-on-terence-atmanes-cincinnati-open-run-and-makes-a-prediction-about-his-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinner has made a prediction about Atmane\u2019s future<\/a> since their match, expecting big things in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>How did Jannik Sinner beat Terence Atmane?<\/p>\n<p>Although the record will show a straight-sets win for Sinner, that does not paint the full picture of just how well Atmane played, particularly in the first set.<\/p>\n<p>After all, he pushed the world number one into a tiebreak with some remarkable play, remaining rock-solid on his own serve, but failing to create a break point on Sinner\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229770064-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Jannik Sinner hits a shot\" \/>Photo by Shelley Lipton\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the highest-pressure moments are where Sinner shines brightest, and he overcame Atmane in that breaker to claim the first set.<\/p>\n<p>From that point forward, it felt like a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The French star continued to play well, but Sinner ran away with it in typically ruthless fashion, breaking twice in the second set. That was all he needed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tennishead_Sinner_Atamane_170825.jpg\" alt=\"Sinner Atmane stats\" class=\"wp-image-319177\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Atmane deserves all the credit in the world for his form throughout this fairytale week, and hopefully, he can convert it into tangible, consistent success going forward.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s back down to earth for him now, as he will be forced to rush to New York to compete in US Open qualifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Atmane has really captured the imagination over the last week in Cincinnati, storming into the semi-finals and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[37370,432,99,428,58307],"class_list":["post-89643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-terence-atmane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}