Jannik Sinner he closed Roland Garros with an extremely positive balance sheet: the world number 1 conquered, a semi-final reached when participation on the eve of it was anything but a given. The Italian bowed only in five very tight sets to a great Carlos Alcaraz, paying for a poor physical fitness linked to the hip injury before the second Slam of the season, which did not allow him to prepare as well as possible.
Sinner that so now aim straight for the Wimbledon tournament and will return to the field inATP 500 in Halle in a weekwhere it will clearly be the number 1 seed. The German tournament had also been chosen in past seasons by the South Tyrolean to better prepare for the appointment on the London lawns.
The scoreboard is truly of the highest level: Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Hubert Hurkacz and Stefanos Tsitsipas will also be at the start. In total there will be six top 10, to which we must add the reigning champion Alexander Bublik. There will therefore be no lack of competition when he returns to the field.
There are just 90 points to defend in Halle: Last year Sinner reached the quarter-finals beating Richard Gasquet and Lorenzo Sonego in three sets, before retiring in the match against Alexander Bublik when he was down 7-5, 2-0 due to a leg problem, to preserve himself for Wimbledon . A choice that later proved to be a winning one, given the semi-final reached in the London Slam. He will clearly not be the world number 1 in jeopardy.
