{"id":106185,"date":"2025-05-16T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106185\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:51:09","slug":"laura-robson-and-tim-henman-both-agree-on-what-players-are-saying-about-jannik-sinner-in-the-locker-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106185\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Robson and Tim Henman both agree on what players are saying about Jannik Sinner in the locker room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jannik Sinner\u2019s performance yesterday is one that will live long in the memory, with Casper Ruud certain to have nightmares about the nature of his 6-0, 6-1 dispatching.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Italian Open<\/a> crowd were treated to an absolute masterclass by their home favourite, with the world number one losing just seven points as he strolled into a first-set lead.<\/p>\n

Naturally, those covering the clash were purring over the quality on display from Jannik Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Laura Robson and Tim Henman, in particular, sought to not only praise his performance on the night, but also the impact it might now have going forward. <\/p>\n

Laura Robson and Tim Henman think players are scared of Jannik Sinner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking live on Sky Sports Tennis during their coverage of Sinner\u2019s demolition of Casper Ruud<\/a>, the two pundits were naturally effusive in their adulation for the Italian.<\/p>\n

In fact, it was Robson who stated that such a performance, and his return to the sport in general, will have his fellow competitors fearing for their opportunities to compete going forward.<\/p>\n

\"CasperPhoto by Antonietta Baldassarre\/Insidefoto\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n

She noted: \u2018You get the sense that there\u2019s kind of an aura around him in the locker room these days, the fact that all the other players just talk about how good he is. They go into the match almost feeling they\u2019re not going to win because he can hit harder than them and he can move so well, they can\u2019t find any weakness.\u2019<\/p>\n

Henman concurred: \u2018\u2018And with all due respect, I think the players were hoping that that momentum would have gone, that he would have lost his form and had perhaps a difficult tournament here. It\u2019s been normal service resumed.<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019s come out, looked so comfortable as Laura said. I was on the side of the court watching him practise, his ball striking was just absolutely phenomenal.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s therefore no surprise that such a win has seen Sinner close in on a John McEnroe all-time record<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jannik Sinner has Tommy Paul in his sights<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Ruud brushed aside with astounding ease, Tommy Paul is next up for Sinner.<\/p>\n

And, whilst he does not quite boast the same clay-court pedigree as the Norwegian, he will pose a different threat that could trouble Sinner more so.<\/p>\n

His road to the Italian Open semi-final has been a hard-fought one, dropping just one set whilst overcoming Alex De Minaur, Tomas Machac and Hubert Hurcacz.<\/p>\n

Sinner vs Paul H2H<\/p>\n\nWinner<\/td>\nJannik Sinner<\/td>\nJannik Sinner<\/td>\nTommy Paul<\/td>\nJannik Sinner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nYear<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n2023<\/td>\n2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEvent<\/td>\nUS Open<\/td>\nATP Masters Canada<\/td>\nEastbourne<\/td>\nATP Masters Madrid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSurface<\/td>\nOutdoor Hard<\/td>\nOutdoor hard<\/td>\nOutdoor grass<\/td>\nOutdoor clay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRound<\/td>\nRound of 16<\/td>\nSemi-final<\/td>\nRound of 16<\/td>\nRound of 64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

However, none of these have anything like the danger Sinner offers, who hits harder and cleaner than arguably anybody on the tour.<\/p>\n

It will have to be the match of his life to upset the rampaging Italian, and having seen the manner in which he mauled Ruud, Paul has reason to be apprehensive about today\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner\u2019s performance yesterday is one that will live long in the memory, with Casper Ruud certain to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4718,48032,79,1068,48674,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-106185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-jannik-sinner","9":"tag-laura-robson","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-tim-henman","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114517369430489505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}