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1. Voo de Mar says:

   May 17, 2026 at 6:56 pm

   Points won by each set: | 31-25, 35-28 |
   Unreturned serves:
   18 % Sinner – 10 of 55
   15 % Ruud – 10 of 64

   [1] Sinner’s form this season is absolutely amazing, comparable only to a few cases in the Open Era as far as the first five months of the year are concerned. He has now collected the first five Masters 1K titles of the year – a feat no-one achieved before him, even the best player in history Djokovic, who had been invincible in the first five months of 2011, but skipped Monte Carlo due to knee injury. Adding Paris ’25, Sinner has won six consecutive titles at this very prestigious level, and he overcomes Djokovic’s record of the most consecutive Masters 1K wins: Sinner has now 34 straight wins, Djokovic had won 31 when lost the Cincinnati ’11 final. Sinner has completed the Career Golden Masters (titles at nine different venues where 1000 points await for the champion) in less than three years (!), the only man with the same feat (Djokovic) needed 11 years, Cincinnati was the toughest for him.
   Ruud [25] played a good match, he was fresh and eager to improvise a bit – it’s been his 8th big final (1:7 record), but never before he’d advanced to such a final so easily. He jumped to a *2:0 lead, but his problem is that his recently improved backhand is a mechanical shot while Sinner hits backhands almost as fast as forehands, and it’s very natural for him – that’s his main strength; in 2025 the Italian considerably improved his serve and the reality is that in “the best of three” format the ‘first league’ players struggle a lot to steal a set from Sinner. In the past three Masters 1K clay-court events, a pattern has been developed – Sinner loses one tight set per tournament (Machac, Bonzi, Medvedev). Sinner’s ability to be focused from start to finish for 2-2.5 hours is second to none. Anyway, I don’t think he can keep the streak this Summer (Canadian Open & Cincinnati) – he’ll be tired after Roland Garros and Wimbledon, and finally someone may beat him, or an injury may eliminate him from competition. “There’s no better place to complete this set,” Sinner said about his triumph in the Italian capital becoming the first Italian in 50 years (Adriano Panatta) to get the trophy there, “It has been a very, very interesting tournament already back in the years. In 2019, [I made my] debut here on this court. I always felt very positive, but in a different way, a lot of attention, a lot of emotions going through. It means a lot.”

   Sinner’s route to his 29th title:
   2 Sebastian Ofner 6-3, 6-4
   3 Alexei Popyrin 6-2, 6-0
   4 Andrea Pellegrino 6-2, 6-3
   Q Andrey Rublev 6-2, 6-4
   S Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 ☆
   W Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4

   Serve & volley: Sinner 1/1, Ruud 3/4

   ☆ The match vs Medvedev lasted two days (halted due to rain at 4:2* in 3rd for Sinner);
   the Italian was physically struggling from the first games of the 2nd set to the match suspension (humidity was ~90%)

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   May 30, 2026 at 3:16 pm

   ☆ Sinner paid the price for playing so many full-time tournaments, and was ousted in the French Open second round
   6-3, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 1-6 by JM.Cerúndolo, completely losing his energy resources in the 3rd set. Sinner had 30 matches won in a row…

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