{"id":149698,"date":"2025-06-01T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149698\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:51:09","slug":"french-open-star-absolutely-thrashed-by-jannik-sinner-shows-his-class-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149698\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open star absolutely thrashed by Jannik Sinner shows his class | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis ace Jiri Lehecka showed his class with a respectable message for Jannik Sinner<\/a> just moments after being thrashed by the world No.1. Lehecka was hammered in straight sets against Sinner, who won the match 6-0, 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n

In truth, it was barely a contest at all. Sinner\u2019s quality was far too much for Lehecka, with it becoming clear after the first set that the three-time Grand Slam winner would get the job done in double quick time. That proved to be the case, with the Italian taking just over one hour and 30 minutes to get the job done.<\/p>\n

Going off Lehecka\u2019s social media post from after the match, it\u2019s clear he wasn\u2019t too disheartened by the result, as the 23-year-old posted a photo on Instagram<\/a>, captioning it: \u201cThis photo sums up the whole match. You think I won a match or a set? No, no. This is the feeling when you win 1 game against Jannik Sinner<\/a> at Roland Garros.\u201d It was a classy response from Lehecka following his on-court battering.<\/p>\n

While tougher tests await Sinner, starting with tomorrow\u2019s fourth-round clash against Andrey Rublev, his performances in the French capital have been ominous for the chasing pack. He\u2019s yet to drop a set in the tournament so far, with a run to his first French Open final and a maiden Roland-Garros title, becoming a real possibility.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s likely he\u2019ll have to come up against familiar foe Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in order to achieve that, with the formidable duo having been drawn on opposite sides of the bracket. But on his showings so far, Sinner said: \u201cThis morning I felt that I was feeling the ball very good but, again, the conditions can change from one moment to the other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was rain a little bit at some point, and then after it was nearly sunny. This changed how the ball bounces and how fast it goes through the air. Things can change so quickly from one day to the other. We saw this in Rome [after defeating Casper Ruud]. Nobody believed me, but in half an hour I lost the first set 6-1 [to Tommy Paul in the following match]. So I have to be very careful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis ace Jiri Lehecka showed his class with a respectable message for Jannik Sinner just moments after being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4719,5066,58589,4718,64045,79,1068,31636,5838,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-149698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp-tour","9":"tag-french-open","10":"tag-french-open-scores","11":"tag-jannik-sinner","12":"tag-sinner","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-tennis-latest","16":"tag-tennis-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114608674140544360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149698","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=149698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}