{"id":56604,"date":"2023-05-12T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=56604"},"modified":"2023-05-12T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:58:49","slug":"jannik-sinner-dismantles-thanasi-kokkinakis-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/05\/12\/jannik-sinner-dismantles-thanasi-kokkinakis-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner Dismantles Thanasi Kokkinakis in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighth seed Jannik Sinner of Italy thrashed Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia 6-1 6-4 in the second round of the Italian Open in Rome on Friday. The match lasted for around one and half hours, as Kokkinakis could not put up much resistance. The 21-year-old Italian, who had finished as the runner-up in Miami earlier this year, thus stayed in contention for his maiden Masters 1000 title.<\/p>\n<h2>Jannik Sinner Dismantles Thanasi Kokkinakis in Rome<\/h2>\n<h4>Jannik Sinner dispatched most of the short balls offered to him:<\/h4>\n<p>Sinner exhibited uninhibited aggression from the very beginning and raced to a 3-0 lead in the first set, breaking Kokkinakis to love in the second game. He then broke Kokkinakis once again to ease towards a win in the set. The big-serving Austalian&#8217;s serve was not as effective on the slow red clay of Rome and Sinner took advantage of that.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Sinner directed a lot of traffic towards Kokkinakis&#8217; backhand. He also played incisive approach shots almost every time a short ball was offered to him and then rushed to the net to finish the point with a volley.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"AP1Vmn7qSxlnWJbxvSPzqw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1489396717\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'AP1Vmn7qSxlnWJbxvSPzqw',sig:'-uepEznacHh5JZM9VkVOkfibnhTKjQ0ZyHVH8EFXxm4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1489396717',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Kokkinakis fared better in the second set, but struggled with his serve overall:<\/h4>\n<p>Kokkinakis served and hit his backhand better in the second set, but his return of serve was not good enough to test Sinner. The Australian struggled to deal with Sinner&#8217;s first serve quite often. The Italian, meanwhile, managed to get the decisive break in the set and then held his serve to finish the match off.<\/p>\n<p>Kokkinakis could win only 62% of the points on his first delivery in the match. In stark contrast, Sinner won a staggering 97% of the points on his first serve and 80% of the points on his second delivery. It proved to be quite a mismatch in the end, as Sinner registered an emphatic win.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighth seed Jannik Sinner of Italy thrashed Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia 6-1 6-4 in the second round of the Italian Open in Rome on Friday. The match lasted for around one and half hours, as Kokkinakis could not put up much resistance. The 21-year-old Italian, who had finished as the runner-up in Miami earlier this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4311,"featured_media":55135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12397,5862,1658],"class_list":["post-56604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","tag-atp-italian-open","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-thanasi-kokkinakis"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}