{"id":69249,"date":"2025-07-17T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69249\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:56:09","slug":"he-is-the-player-who-beat-jannik-sinner-in-his-first-ever-match-at-wimbledon-but-had-to-go-through-qualifying-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69249\/","title":{"rendered":"He is the player who beat Jannik Sinner in his first ever match at Wimbledon but had to go through qualifying this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jannik Sinner has showcased just how far he has come as a player after winning the Wimbledon title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sinner beat Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final<\/a>, enacting revenge from the Roland Garros<\/a> final where he had three championship points.<\/p>\n

There has been a big reaction to this victory, with even Rafael Nadal sending a message to Sinner<\/a> after his victory over Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Sinner<\/a> is now the world number one and Wimbledon<\/a> champion, his first appearance at the grass court major was far less successful.<\/p>\n

\"MartonPhoto by Mike Hewitt\/Getty ImagesMarton Fucsovics: The man who beat Jannik Sinner in his first ever main draw match at Wimbledon<\/p>\n

Sinner made his main draw debut at Wimbledon in 2021 as a 19-year-old, having lost in qualifying the year prior.<\/p>\n

Despite it being his first ever appearance at Wimbledon, Sinner was actually the 19th seed after enjoying a breakout season.<\/p>\n

This included winning his first two ATP<\/a> titles, finishing runner-up at the Miami Open<\/a>, as well as reaching the quarterfinals of Roland Garros, where Sinner would lose to Nadal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sinner would be drawn to play Hungarian Marton Fucsovics, who was the world number 48 at the time, in his first ever match at Wimbledon in 2021.<\/p>\n

They had played twice before at this point, with the head-to-head set at one win apiece and it was actually Sinner who had won their most recent meeting.<\/p>\n

However, on this occasion Fucsovics was able to get the upper hand and beat Sinner, 5-7 6-3 7-5 6-3, to send the promising young talent crashing out of Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

While this seemed like somewhat of a surprise at the time, it was just the start of a breakout tournament for Fucsovics.<\/p>\n

Fucsovics would go on to beat the likes of Diego Schwartzman<\/a> and Andrey Rublev<\/a> to reach his first Grand Slam quarterfinal, before he was eventually beaten by eventual champion Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What happened to Marton Fucsovics at Wimbledon this year?<\/p>\n

Fucsovics has been unable to recreate this sort of success since then, and was the world number 105 coming into Wimbledon this year.<\/p>\n

This meant that the now 33-year-old had to play qualifying instead, and he was actually beaten in the final round by Luxembourger Chris Rodesch.<\/p>\n

Although this appeared to be the end of the road for Fucsovics\u2019 Wimbledon campaign in 2025, he received a lifeline when Borna Coric withdrew from the tournament.<\/p>\n

This enabled Fucsovics to move into the main draw as a lucky loser, and he certainly took advantage of that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fucsovics beat Aleksandar Kovacevic and Gael Monfils<\/a> in back-to-back five set matches to become the first male lucky loser to reach the third round of Wimbledon in the Open Era.<\/p>\n

His rollercoaster run would eventually come to an end against Ben Shelton<\/a>, but he has now climbed back up to world number 89 in the ATP rankings and has a confirmed place in the main draw of the US Open<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner has showcased just how far he has come as a player after winning the Wimbledon title.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,1824,34026,62,1464,67,132,68,2071],"class_list":{"0":"post-69249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-jannik-sinner","10":"tag-marton-fucsovics","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114867273056703873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}