Last week in Monte Carlo, the best player from last year and the best player from this year fell short of the standards they had set for themselves in tournament finishes.
Still, there’s a decent chance that after the inevitable disappointment of losing, Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner felt very good about the start of their 2024 clay seasons and confident about where they might go.
Last week in Monte Carlo, the best player from last year and the best player from this year fell short of the standards they had set for themselves in tournament finishes.
Still, there’s a decent chance that after the inevitable disappointment of losing, Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner felt very good about the start of their 2024 clay seasons and confident about where they might go.
Sinner had every reason to assume he would make the final early in the third and decisive set.
Tsitsipas was serving, down 1-3, and his opponent was one point away from breaking the Greek’s serve for the second time. Sinner seemed to have the point when Tsitsipas’ second serve was a few inches long, but the out call never arrived.
Tsitsipas won that game, the following three, and the match.
A day later, he won the title by defeating Norway’s Casper Ruud 6-1, 6-4. He stated the missed call most definitely lost Sinner their encounter, and Sinner said he continued thinking about it afterward, even blaming it for cramps he subsequently experienced.
Sinner stated, “A difficult one to swallow.” “I was playing, at some points, great tennis — was, you know, playing well.”
Electronic line-calling will be implemented at all ATP tournaments next year.
Sinner was performing well, according to some of the most advanced statistics compiled by British tennis data firm TennisViz. The Italian was playing as well as anyone in Monte Carlo.
“Conversion score” is one way to assess this – the proportion of points a player wins when in an attacking position. It demonstrates a player’s clinical ability to capitalize on opportunities and turn them into points. The average ATP Tour player will earn 66% of the points.
