The wild guitar riff of Blur’s Song 2 sounds and, in rhythm, Jannik Sinner keeps unleashing forehands and violent backhands that quickly finish off Alexander Zverev. The German lasts just a sigh, taciturn, defeated and downcast from start to finish, with no chance on an afternoon turned into a pleasant stroll for the Italian to continue making history (6-1 and 6-2, in 57 minutes) and taking over a season that he is making completely his own. Either the landscape changes a lot or some setback occurs, or the recorders of the Musketeers’ Cup can already start putting on gloves and wielding the chisel in Paris. Far from closing the gap, the number one drifts even further away from the rest every day.
It feels like too little for everyone. Of course for Zverev, blushing: “I’m very sorry…”. For the fans, who after digging into their pockets (180 euros) watch little more than a training session. And, ultimately, for Sinner himself, who finishes the afternoon barely having broken a sweat and left wanting more although, on second thought, there couldn’t have been a better scenario for him, today a solitary planet, an absolute islet without the presence of Carlos Alcaraz and taking bite after bite in the Masters 1000 territory. From here on out in October, consecutively: Paris, Indian Wells, Monte Carlo, Miami and now Madrid. A unique achievement in the men’s field, but not in the women’s. Danish Caroline Wozniacki also strung together five in a row between 2010 and 2011.
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