Australian Open: Sinner ‘feeling positive’ after win over Van de Zandschulp in first match of the season
Jannik Sinner defeated Botic van de Zandschulp 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday night and will play the winner of the match between Dutch qualifier Jesper De Jong and Argentinian Pedro Cachin in the next round
Jannik Sinner at the 2023 Australian Open
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Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 4 seed, advanced to the second round of the Australian Open by winning against Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 at Melbourne Park on Sunday night.
It was the first match of the season for Sinner, who elected to forego a lead up tournament in order to have a longer off-season.
He shook off the rust quickly, saving five of six break points and improving to 9-4 lifetime at the Australian Open and reaching round two at Melbourne Park for the fourth time.
“I think, to be honest, it was a positive opening match” – Sinner after his first match of the 2024 season
“I feel like I started off actually really well, to be honest, for the first match,” Sinner told the media after hsi win. “Then after, I had some moments where I made a couple of wrong choices, but this can happen. Even if you made maybe some matches, this can happen. Maybe you are a little bit tired sometimes. Today I felt like a little bit, the match feeling, it was important today for me, because I was looking forward to step on the court. I think, to be honest, it was a positive opening match. I feel like best-of-five can help me a little bit. You stay on court a little bit longer. You get to play a little bit longer, which is what I like to do. Then we see in the next rounds what’s coming.”
Sinner, ranked No 4, will play the winner of the match between Dutch qualifier Jesper De Jong and Argentinian Pedro Cachin next.
Sinner finished with 26 winners against 37 unforced errors. He won 35 of 51 first-serve points and 24 of 37 second serve points.
“Hopefully I can show some more in the next round,” he said.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Richard Gasquet vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Daniel Evans vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Juncheng Shang
- Alexander Bublik vs. Sumit Nagal
- Marcos Giron vs. Jack Draper
- Tommy Paul vs. Gregoire Barrere
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Casper Ruud
- Max Purcell vs. Mate Valkusz
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Giulio Zeppieri
- Cameron Norrie vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Jiri Lehecka
- James McCabe vs. Alex Michelsen
- SoonWoo Kwon vs. Lukas Klein
- Alexander Zverev vs. Dominik Koepfer
- Sebastian Ofner vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Roman Safiullin vs. Tallon Griekspoor
- Arthur Fils vs. Jiri Vesely
- Laslo Djere vs. Arthur Cazaux
- Holger Rune vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Dominic Thiem
- Alex De Minaur vs. Milos Raonic
- Omar Jasika vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Rinky Hijikata vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Yosuke Watanuki
- Alexandre Muller vs. Hugo Grenier
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Federico Coria
- Ugo Humbert vs. David Goffin
- Maximilian Marterer vs. Nuno Borges
- Christopher Eubanks vs. Taro Daniel
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Karen Khachanov
- Alejandro Tabilo vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
- Andy Murray vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Gael Monfils
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Jakub Mensik
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Jordan Thompson
- Matteo Berrettini vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Constant Lestienne vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- James Duckworth vs. Luca Van Assche
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Ben Shelton
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Stan Wawrinka
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Marc Polmans
- Terence Atmane vs. Daniil Medvedev
- Patrick Kypson vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
- Sebastian Korda vs. Vit Kopriva
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Benjamin Bonzi
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Hugo Gaston
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Borna Coric
- Novak Djokovic vs. Dino Prizmic
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Jason Kubler
- Quentin Halys vs. Lloyd Harris
- Taylor Fritz vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
- Jesper De Jong vs. Pedro Cachin
- Christopher O’Connell vs. Cristian Garin
- Tomas Machac vs. Shintaro Mochizuki
- J.J. Wolf vs. Sebastian Baez
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Andrey Rublev
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Marin Čilić: sunday
- Dane Sweeny vs. Francisco Cerundolo: sunday
- Pavel Kotov vs. Arthur Rinderknech: sunday
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Adam Walton (WC): 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-4
- Jaume Munar beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
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