SINNER GETS RUB OF GREEN OVER ADMIRER

Alcaraz sporting in defeat as lucky Jannik's crowned

- By Andy Dunn

HE HAS had some lucky breaks, Jannik Sinner, that is for sure.

Earlier this year he agreed a deal to serve a three-month doping ban, the timing of which meant he did not miss a Grand Slam.

And in the round-of-16 here he was two sets down to Grigor Dimitrov with the score locked at 2-2 in the third set - when the pectoral muscle Bulgarian's popped and he had to retire.

Sinner has had the rub of the green, without a doubt, and the controversy and fallout from that doping suspension will resurface every time he adds to a Grand Slam tally that now stands at four.

And that is fair enough.

The bottom line is that he served a punishment for a doping transgression and that does not look great on any athlete's record.