by When the dusk set SW19 on Tuesday, a very real question was whether Jannik Sünders Ellbogen would break his heart.
The World No. 1, which had still recovered from the emotional annihilation of his final defeat of his French open final defeat by Carlos Alcaraz, was recovered with Ben Shelton in time for his Wimbledon quarter-finals. And when Sinner had canceled on Tuesday, one day after the fall and injured his elbow in his lucky escape against a poor, injured Grigor Dimitrov, everyone wondered whether the Italian would play on Wednesday.
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Boy, he played. Shelton must have wondered whether sinners have ever been injured. The Italian’s coach, Darren Cahill, said on Tuesday that Sünner lost 6 miles per hour on his forehand with the kind permission of the affected elbow. Where did these 6 miles per hour come from? They seemed present and taken into account on No 1 Court, where Sünner looked a man who was full control over his arsenal – forehand, backhand and services.
In fact, if there was ever a test of the tendon in Sünders aching elbows, this would be the surcharge of Shelton. But Sinner even met and managed to serve the weapon of the day. In the first set, the 22-year-old Shelton was hardly able to win the 23-year-old’s service games and shockingly only a few points.
However, the American took step and held the fans entertained. On the way he played tween and even produced a 139 km / h ass. That led a fan to the joke: “Let’s have a 140!” Seconds later, Shelton hammered a 147 km / h error.
Ben Shelton received a lot of support from No. 1 Hof (Getty Images)
“Come on, big ben!” was a common, loving chorus of the sun -injured stands. And when Big Ben spent the sinner for a 2-0 lead in the first tie-break in one of the points of the set, No 1 Court welcomed the moment as if the outsider had won the match himself. Soon a double mistake soon followed, which handed over the dynamic to sinners who ran away with the crusher and took the set with him.
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Shelton actually recovered well in order to finally put the sinner on the latter’s serve in the first game of the second set, and there was another frustration when the 22-year-old did not convert two break points.
When the set continued, Shelton’s match was about simply keeping a sinner, but the match was generally about Shelton’s spirit. Since Sünner has long since proven that his elbow was good to go, the story shifted to his American opponent, who dragged his sporting framework out of the grass at one point to strike back a sinner over the net.
The 10th seed received rousing when he suddenly faces a break and a setpoint with 4: 5. However, the support was not enough to help Shelton neutralize the attack of sinners, and the crowd showed its respect for the world No. 1 when he doubled his defined lead.
Jannik Sünder was a level about Shelton for almost the entire match (Getty Images)
In fact, it was Siner’s 14th victory in a row against Shelton, and this number reached 15 when he finally lowered the young American shortly before 6 p.m. in the southwest of London. Shelton offered a last outbreak of defense and saved two match points, but he only delayed the inevitable.
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“Yes, I mean, if you are in a match in a match in a match, try not to think about it,” said Sinner about his injury and spoke after the game. “It improved a lot from yesterday until today. Yesterday my day was very short on the practical court, 20 minutes only with the coaches.
“This is not an excuse. There is no better stage than that, and I think I showed it today. The atmosphere helped me today, so thank you for the support.”
The support was more in favor of Shelton, but Sünner rightly received admiration because he fought through the problem. And with that, sinners stay in the All England Club at least longer.
