Jannik Sinner took almost a month-long break after his incredible title triumph at Wimbledon. “ The body and mind need to recover and need to understand what happened, ” he had explained. He came into the Cincinnati Open rejuvenated and started right from where he had left off at SW19. In his first match in Ohio, he took down Daniel Elahi Galan comfortably, and then in the second match, he secured yet another straight-sets victory against Gabriel Diallo. However, he was far from happy with his service game.

Having hit only 6 aces and committed double faults, the Italian headed to a practice court at 10 pm and hit about 100 serves. The result? In the very next match against Adrian Mannarino, he improved his numbers to 12 aces and just 2 double faults. “ I felt like today I was ser

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