Jannik Sinner started the 2026 French Open as the clear favourite as he arrived at the clay-court Grand Slam on the back of winning five ATP Masters 1000 tournaments in a row, but tennis great Henri Leconte says the Italian may have been \u201cplaying too much\u201d.<\/p>\n
Having won the Indian Wells Open, Miami Open, Monte Carlo Masters, Madrid Open and Italian Open in the space of two months, the world No 1 arrived at Roland Garros with a 29-match winning streak and took that to 30 with a comfortable three-set win over Clemente Tabur.<\/p>\n
Facing Juan Manuel Cerundolo in the second round, Sinner<\/a> was expected to comfortably beat the world No 56 and he was on course as he opened a 6-3, 6-2, 5-1, but the heat started to take its toll and he suffered one of the most dramatic collapses at majors.<\/p>\n Sinner \u2013 who took a medical timeout<\/a> \u2013 won only two more games as the Argentine claimed a 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n Cerundolo admitted that he was \u201clucky\u201d<\/a> as he stated: \u201cIt\u2019s tough for him. I couldn\u2019t win more than three games in a set, so I was a little bit lucky. He deserved to win this match, and then I don\u2019t know what happened. But I feel sorry for him and hope he recovers.\u201d<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic and Joao Fonseca preview their \u2018dream\u2019 blockbuster French Open clash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n French Open: Boris Becker admits he was \u2018a bit worried\u2019 about \u2018friend\u2019 Novak Djokovic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n But former world No 5 Leconte \u2013 who finished runner-up at the 1988 French Open \u2013 believes Sinner has been playing too many matches in recent months.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know it is. It seems outrageous. Yes, but I think the problem is, he\u2019s been playing so well but maybe playing too much,\u201d the TNT pundit said. \u201cSo it just came at the French Open, with a little bit, no more, not enough energy, and that\u2019s what happened today.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really hot, but you also have to say that Cerundolo played unbelievable at the end. Definitely. He was so solid, was so solid, but, of course, it\u2019s a big surprise, and, uh, now we have an open door.\u201d<\/p>\n Former British No 1 Tim Henman described it as \u201cone of the biggest upsets\u201d at majors.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the biggest upsets in Grand Slams for many, many years. Two sets to one up, 5-1 in the third set, absolute cruise control,\u201d he said. \u201cSinner\u2019s been beating everyone for months, hasn\u2019t looked like losing, and then, what\u2019s that, 18 of the next 20 games, Cerundolo takes? Phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n *Henri Leconte and Tim Henman will feature as part of TNT Sports\u2019 Roland-Garros coverage*<\/p>\n *Every match of Roland-Garros is live across TNT Sports and HBO Max*<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Did Jannik Sinner\u2019s historic Masters run backfire at French Open? Tennis great gives verdict<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jannik Sinner started the 2026 French Open as the clear favourite as he arrived at the clay-court Grand Slam on the back of winning five ATP Masters 1000 tournaments in a row, but tennis great Henri Leconte says the Italian may have been \u201cplaying too much\u201d. Having won the Indian Wells Open, Miami Open, Monte […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open News<\/h2>\n