{"id":71724,"date":"2025-07-18T04:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71724\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T04:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:31:08","slug":"he-is-the-player-who-once-defeated-jannik-sinner-in-wimbledon-qualifying-but-has-never-been-ranked-higher-than-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71724\/","title":{"rendered":"He is the player who once defeated Jannik Sinner in Wimbledon qualifying but has never been ranked higher than 125"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jannik Sinner is the toast of tennis after claiming his maiden Wimbledon crown last weekend. <\/strong><\/p>\n

His four-set win over Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> came after he\u2019d dropped the first set and Sinner<\/a> proved exactly why he\u2019s the world\u2019s number one player. <\/p>\n

Sinner finally cracked Wimbledon<\/a> for the first time in his career and bounced back from a tough quarter-final loss to Daniil Medvedev when he struggled badly with fatigue. <\/p>\n

Although he\u2019s only just collected his maiden Wimbledon title, he\u2019s actually been trying to shoot for the stars at the All England Club for a while. <\/p>\n

Sinner has progressed at an alarming rate in recent years but it hasn\u2019t always been quite so straightforward for the Italian. <\/p>\n

\"JannikPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesThe player who beat Jannik Sinner in 2019 Wimbledon qualifying<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine Sinner having to qualify given how utterly brilliant he is right now but that was the situation he was faced with in 2019. <\/p>\n

Sinner came up against Australian performer Alex Bolt \u2013 and lost!<\/p>\n

The future star of the game would, of course, go on and claim the title and become a player tipped to break all sorts of records. <\/p>\n

On that day in Roehampton, however, he had no answer to Bolt\u2019s brilliance as he was sent packing 6-2, 5-7, 10-12. <\/p>\n

Sinner was just a teenager back then and had only been on the professional circuit for one year. <\/p>\n

Clearly, he wasn\u2019t good enough to beat Bolt on that occasion and perhaps it was a defeat of this nature that lit the fire inside him that eventually led to world dominance. <\/p>\n

Who is Alex Bolt?<\/p>\n

Like many players do, Bolt was one of many players who spent time on the tour trying to make a name for himself in professional tennis. <\/p>\n

Bolt qualified for the Australian Open<\/a> in 2019, reaching the third round before losing to Alexander Zverev in straight sets. <\/p>\n

During that tournament he beat the very capable Jack Sock and Gilles Simon to showcase what he\u2019s capable of. <\/p>\n

He also reached round two of Wimbledon in 2021 but was beaten in comprehensive style to Cameron Norrie<\/a> after overcoming Serbian player Filip Krajinovic in round one. <\/p>\n

Bolt has reached a career high of 125 and right now is sitting at 179 in the world rankings, playing on the challenger tour trying to improve his ranking. <\/p>\n

Recently, the Australian showcased that he can play by qualifying for the main draw at this year\u2019s Wimbledon, losing to Ben Shelton<\/a> in round one. <\/p>\n

Despite a career that has at times been a struggle, Bolt will likely remember that day when he beat Sinner vividly. <\/p>\n

At 32, there might not be much left for Bolt but it will be fascinating to see if he can kick on after a successful Wimbledon qualifying campaign. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner is the toast of tennis after claiming his maiden Wimbledon crown last weekend. His four-set win…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1824,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-71724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-jannik-sinner","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71724","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=71724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}