Coco Gauff, the 6 seed in the French Open, had to bide her team while a five-hour men's match played out. She finally took to the red clay and dispatched her foe in 68 minutes.
If there’s an art to managing this, Coco Gauff mastered it Thursday. She readied and waited and readied and waited for her second-round match through one of the damnedest tennis sagas anybody ever saw, the longest match of this French Open , a men’s singles match that lasted more than two hoursLuckily Gauff, familiar to the tennis-viewing eye since age 15, counts among the wily veterans now even though she still hasn’t bothered to turn 20 yet.
They played a 58-minute first set to a tiebreaker. They played a 73-minute second set to a tiebreaker. They split those. They played a third set through which Sinner breezed. They got to Sinner serving for the match at 5-4 and deuce and then match point in the fourth.Sinner primed to win. He spiced a 10-shot point with a gnarly forehand to the corner. He fielded Altmaier’s defensive lob. He let it bounce and smashed an overhead near the middle of the court.
Gauff and Grabher waited. Sinner had another match point two points later. Gauff and Grabher waited. Sinner and Altmaier roamed into a tiebreaker and 3-3 in there before Altmaier won 7-4 to cause a fifth set. Gauff and Grabher waited.Asked whether she screamed, Gauff said she screamed but was joking. “Yeah, watch the match, to be honest,” she said. “We’re sitting there all in the gym waiting, and then when a set is over, you go back [to the practice court].
The middle of the fifth took its winding road to where Altmaier served for the match at 5-4, Sinner led 15-40, Altmaier got it to deuce and Sinner broke anyway, whereupon Sinner served at 5-5 and Altmaier broke Sinner at 15, whereupon Altmaier served for the match at 6-5 and went ahead 40-love, whereupon Sinner rallied to deuce, whereupon the place became a madhouse with the crowd chanting both names.
That last game, the one at deuce, included 16 points, five match points for Altmaier, three break points for Sinner, Sinner making a pose after a gasp of a forehand pass off an Altmaier overhead on the fourth match point and Sinner throwing his racket to the clay after fumbling one of the three break points.
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