John Isner aka The Giant Sequioa beat Felix AA 7-6, 7-6. I dunno, yes Isner is a seasoned veteran who thrives on HC but it just seems to be another example of what I find to be a problem with Felix. For all his gifts he can’t impose himself on matches, seems to play up or down to his opponents abilities. Starting to wonder if it’s a mental crutch, ie he plays just well enough to lose.
OTOH Janick Sinner’s 3 set win over Karen Kachanov was impressive. Ironically Lobotomy boy did not play badly, but Sinner stepped it up in the 3rd set. Both boys like to blast the ball. The commentators were saying that Sinner had an insane 1 UFE in that set ( KK only had 3 or 4) and when KK was serving at 4-4, 40-15 Sinner fought back to deuce and then somehow ran down a KK drop volley for a CC winner for BP to eventually break. Really a fantastic point.