Italy’s Jannik Sinner seems at his racket as he performs in opposition to Spain’s Pedro Martinez throughout their males’s singles third spherical tennis match on the sixth day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Garden Tennis and Croquet Membership in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 5, 2025. (Photograph by Glyn KIRK / AFP)
Jannik Sinner equaled a 53-year mark for dominance within the first three rounds of the lads’s singles at Wimbledon because the world primary dropped simply 17 video games on his march to the final 16.
Sinner crushed Spanish world quantity 52 Pedro Martinez, who was carrying a shoulder harm, in a 6-1, 6-3, 6-1 third-round demolition on Centre Court docket on Saturday.
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The 23-year-old Italian’s lack of solely 17 video games from his three matches equals the SW19 Open Period document set by Jan Kodes in 1972.
“Concerning the video games misplaced, that is no matter. I’m not these form of data. I do know that the whole lot can change in a short time from one spherical to the opposite,” Sinner stated.
When Bjorn Borg gained the title with out dropping a set in 1976, he had conceded 27 video games over the primary three matches, whereas Roger Federer, the one different man to realize the feat in 2017, had misplaced 28.
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Sinner is but to have his serve damaged and has confronted simply eight break factors, 4 of which had been repelled in opposition to Martinez.
He has spent solely 5 hours and 23 minutes on court docket to this point, which is six minutes lower than his French Open remaining defeat by Carlos Alcaraz final month.
Sinner will face Bulgarian nineteenth seed Grigor Dimitrov for a spot within the quarterfinals.
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