Sinner’s Slippery Start: Why the World No. 1 is Finding SW19 So Hard
By Sofia Laurent · 6 min read
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The air on Court 1 was thick with the scent of freshly mown rye and the collective anxiety of fifteen thousand people who thought they were about to see a historic collapse.
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It’s Day 1 at Wimbledon, and the narrative was supposed to be about coronation.
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There is a specific kind of gravity that comes with being the World No.
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Still, Sinner is a different beast than he was eighteen months ago.
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Sinner wasn’t the only one struggling.
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I spoke to a former top-10 player in the press lounge who described the first two days at Wimbledon as "playing on wet glass while wearing socks." This isn't just hyperbole.