00:00Jannick Sinner, a formidable title favorite, is eliminated from the French Open in the second
00:05round. He missed a chance to serve for the match in the third set and lost on Thursday to Juan
00:10Manuel Sarundolo, who is ranked 56th. With two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz out
00:17with an injury to his right wrist, Sinner was on a 30-match winning streak dating back to February,
00:22and the odds were stacked against him winning the only major title he had not won in his tennis
00:27career. However, Sinner sensationally lost 18 points in a row to trail 0-40, serving for the
00:34match a second time at 5-4, after leading 5-1 in the third set and possibly a minute from
00:39the locker
00:39room. He walked to his chair after bending over on the court. Sinner was attended to by the medical
00:46staff and was allowed to leave the court after saying he felt sick to have his condition assessed
00:51and blood pressure taken. He lost three more games and the set when he returned. Sinner used drop
00:57shots and serve-in-volley tactics to try to cut down on the number of points as the match progressed,
01:03repeatedly bending over on the clay court in what appeared to be exhaustion and barely moving.
01:08Sinner stated, wake up this morning, didn't feel very well and tried to keep the points very short.
01:13Also, at first, I hit very cleanly and well. After that, I just kind of hit the wall, and that's
01:21it.
01:22Picks by the editor what went wrong at the French Open for Jannik Sinner.
01:26Dossi Main. Djokovic pushed to four sets as heat boils Paris. The new Rafa,
01:33Raphael Joda is enthralling the crowds at the French Open. Dossi Main.
01:38I don't remember the last time I felt this week, he added later. On transitions,
01:45Sinner tried to cool down by using a handheld fan and wrapping bags of ice around his neck,
01:50but he lost 18 of his last 20 games. Since Andre Agassi in 2000, he was the first male number
01:57one seed to lose in the second round or earlier. I feel sorry for him because he deserved to win
02:03a lot
02:03of matches, and of course he was deserving to win this match, but then I don't know what happened,
02:08Sarundalo said in his on-court interview. The temperature at the start of the match was 84
02:14degrees Fahrenheit and then rose to 90. Sinner stated, it was warm but not crazy warm.
02:21I think playing was pretty good. Really it was nothing against the heat, nothing against the
02:27weather. Today it was just me, but it happens. Sinner responded, in the fifth set, we all know
02:35everything can happen, when asked if he considered retiring before the match ended. I was in a
02:40difficult spot. The heat has taken its toll on other players, with Kasper Rude saying he felt like a
02:46zombie during his first round match, while Czech player Jakub Mensik collapsed at the end of a five-set
02:52battle Wednesday. In January, Sinner struggled against Elliott Speetsiri in the heat at the
02:58Australian Open. The roof was closed, and the third-round match swung his way. In the French
03:04Open final of last year, Sinner, the top seed, lost a two-set lead and three match points to Alcaraz,
03:11who won the title. Sinner's loss Thursday leaves Novak Djokovic as the only men's player left at the
03:17French Open to have claimed a Grand Slam title. It also means, for the first time since Djokovic's
03:23U.S. Open win in 2023, a major crown will be claimed by someone other than Sinner or Carlos
03:29Alcaraz. At DraftKings Sportsbook, Sarundolo was a 32-1 underdog to win the match on Thursday,
03:37with 100-1 live odds. Sinner had been a minus-50,000 favorite to win. Sinner was a minus-300
03:45favorite to win the tournament. This was the second-lowest pre-tournament odds at a Grand Slam
03:51since at least 1990. It was also the lowest odds since Rafael Nadal was minus-400 at the 2009 French
03:59Open, where Nadal lost in the fourth round. As Sinner now turns his focus to Wimbledon,
04:05he said he didn't plan to play any lead-in events on grass and would focus on recovery.
04:09Wimbledon kicks off on June 29. Let's hope we're ready for Wimbledon,
04:16Sinner said. We need to recover well and do things right now to be ready there.
04:21Moise Kwame, a 17-year-old Frenchman, reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time
04:27since Rafael Nadal did the same thing when he was 17 at Wimbledon in 2003. Kwame beat Adolfo Daniel
04:34Vallejo 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 2-6, 7-6, 8. After Sinner's exit, Felix Augureliassime,
04:45seeded No. 4, defeated Roman Andres Buruchaga 4-6, 6-0, 7-5, 6-1. He was the highest-seeded
04:54player remaining in the top half of the draw.
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