• Roland Garros Djokovic lifts two sets to a broken Musetti

It must be difficult, very difficult, for a 19-year-old to believe that he can start with an advantage against

Rafael Nadal in

a round of 16 match at Roland Garros in the

Philippe-Chatrier

, who can win the first set, as he has it close, he has broken the service twice and has his serve to define. It must be difficult to be called

Jannik Sinner

and feel the breath of your people, few but noisy, eager to see how this year, unlike what happened in October, when you faced a similar situation, in the rooms, on the same stage, or in Rome, a few weeks ago, where you didn't go far either, you are capable of breaking down that impassable border for a while.

It must be, because with 5-4 on his side and at the service, the Italian promise, the

finalist of the Miami tournament

, 19th in the world, one of the rackets that has been stretched the most in recent times, does not impact any first, he sends three rights to the net and closes the game with a double fault. He will have won two of the last 18 points when the second set begins, in which he will soon be at a disadvantage, already subdued by the turbine at full capacity, which pushes you towards the back of the court, which shakes you from one extreme to the other as if pulling the strings of a puppet. And he appeases you with a 7-5, 6-3 and 6-0, in two hours and 17 minutes.

That is Nadal, the 13-time champion, the man who already has 104 victories in the tournament who has carved a monument in his name, who, unlike

Novak Djokovic

, his adversary in a hypothetical semi-final, suffered in his match against a recent arrived as

Lorenzo Musetti

, he proclaims 'this land is mine' and defends his place in the face of slight manifestations of rebellion from those who want to arrive and discuss his authority.

Anger unleashed

The worst thing of all for Sinner is not the orography of acne, so evident when a small partial success was hinted at, but it has also unleashed the ire of the winner this season in Rome and in the Count of Godó, because Nadal is in a hurry, no he wants not a scratch on his way to the cup that would crown him as the tennis player with the greatest in history, breaking the tied at 20 with

Roger Federer

, and puts one more march, transforming a dispute that was looming even into a new manifestation of despotism in the heart of the terrestrial planet.

It must be frustrating to come back from

two service losses in the second set

, serve to equal four and err in the same way, as if you had sin printed in your last name.

Never know how to navigate with the current, at least when you have the most powerful man on earth in front of you.

Feeling the victim of a kind of fatal predestination, which denies all your virtues when its expression becomes most urgent and inclines you towards a cruel outcome.

It must be difficult to be called

Diego Schwartzman

, and, despite having an exemplary career, knowing that a good friend awaits you in the quarterfinals this Wednesday, ready to kill you again, a guy who has scored 10, two of them at Roland Garros, and The one you could only overcome once in this string of replicated nightmares.

It must be bitter to have the supposed conditions to do something great in the most important tournament on earth and that fate has thrown you in front of

the historical determinism of Rafael Nadal

.

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