By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday March 16, 2024
Indian Wells – Jannik Sinner was cruising alongside throughout Saturday’s BNP Paribas Open semifinal with Carlos Alcaraz, seemingly headed for a twentieth consecutive win, however he misplaced the plot early within the second set and by no means recovered because the Spaniard took over the match by producing a shocking array of variation to win in three units, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.
After the match Sinner got here to press to speak concerning the match, and defined that he felt he didn’t do sufficient to maintain Alcaraz off stability in units two and three.
“What I have missed today was that I was too predictable at some points,” Sinner stated. “I used to be doing the identical issues over and over, which in my thoughts let me down.”
Sinner, riding a 19-match winning streak into the match, admitted he was thrown off by changes that Alcaraz made tactically. The Spaniard changed his return position, moving back in the court, and started to play more drop shots and rush to the net. He dictated tactics and didn’t allow Sinner room to breathe, and gradually took over the match.
“I was playing really good in the first set,” Sinner said. “Then after, when you see your opponent struggling a little bit, I tried to stay solid instead of trying to move around. So I was too predictable at some points.
“I think that’s the lesson for today. We will work on certain things, you know, and hopefully I will get better.”
Sinner says that he got the same input from his coach Darren Cahill when he talked to him after the match.
“What I said he agreed, no? That I was a little bit too predictable,” he said.
After dropping to 4-4 lifetime against Alcaraz, and losing from a set up against him for the first time, Sinner vowed to improve the next time he faces the Spaniard.
“Today sometimes I made the mistakes,” he said. “We have to understand why, and that’s it. I think it was still a great match.”
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