\u201cI struggled, starting to feel very dizzy,\u201d added the 24-year-old Sinner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very, very flat, you know, the whole body. I don\u2019t remember last time I felt this weak.<\/p>\n
\u201cI woke up this morning, didn\u2019t feel very well and tried to keep the points very short. In the beginning I was hitting very clean, very good, and then I just kind of hit the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sinner revealed he began to fade halfway through the third set as temperatures once again climbed above 30C during a record-breaking heatwave in France.<\/p>\n
But he refused to blame the conditions for his unexpected exit, his earliest at a Grand Slam since he lost at the same stage here in 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was warm, but not crazy warm,\u201d said Sinner. \u201cReally it was nothing against the heat, nothing against the weather. It was just me today, but it happens.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to take anything away from him (Cerundolo). He played a very solid match.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sinner arrived in Paris on the back of winning all three of the clay-court Masters titles, with his odds of completing a career Grand Slam enhanced further by the absence of injured rival Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n
Instead, it was another bitterly disappointing ending at Roland Garros for last year\u2019s runner-up who held three championship points 12 months ago before losing to Alcaraz.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough to accept because of the position I\u2019ve been in and everything considered, but yeah, now I have a lot of time to recover,\u201d said Sinner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t play any tournament on grass before (Wimbledon). Now I need really some time off, recover completely, also mentally, and then be ready to go again.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I said, in the beginning of the year, this (the French Open) is my main goal here. A very early exit it was not what I was looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Cerundolo, who goes on to play Martin Landaluce in the last 32, it was just the third Grand Slam match win of his career.<\/p>\n
The Buenos Aires native didn\u2019t blink as Sinner tried to gamely hang on, Cerundolo putting away the struggling top seed to pull off a monumental upset.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough for him (Sinner). I think I was a little bit lucky,\u201d said Cerundolo. \u201cThe match was almost lost.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI started to notice that something wasn\u2019t good, because I mean, he was beating me pretty easy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cTennis is about being in the present day and being better in that match. He\u2019s number one in the world because he\u2019s the best every day. (It) just happened this day. I was better this day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Remaining men\u2019s top 10 seeds at French Open<\/p>\n
2 – Alexander Zverev (0 grand slams, three finals)<\/p>\n
3 – Novak Djokovic (24 grand slams, 38 finals)<\/p>\n
4 – Felix Auger-Aliassime (0 grand slams, 0 finals)<\/p>\n
8 – Alex De Minaur (0 grand slams, 0 finals)<\/p>\n
10 – Flavio Cobolli (0 grand slams, 0 finals)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI struggled, starting to feel very dizzy,\u201d added the 24-year-old Sinner. \u201cI was very, very flat, you know,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3611,3614,1869,3613,3606,3607,3603,3609,1054,3615,3236,3600,3604,3605,517,3616,2470,3608,3292,3351,3601,3602,28,1706,3610,3612],"class_list":["post-7475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-30match","tag-abrupt","tag-after","tag-came","tag-cerundolo","tag-collapse","tag-defeat","tag-energy","tag-french","tag-halt","tag-hit","tag-jannik","tag-juan","tag-manuel","tag-open","tag-overnight","tag-round","tag-said","tag-second","tag-shock","tag-sinner","tag-suffers","tag-tennis","tag-to","tag-wall","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}