Roland Garros, Sinner saves match point and passes first round

Jannik Sinner saves a match point and advances to the second round of Roland Garros, the second round of the Grand Slam underway in Paris. The 19-year-old South Tyrolean, number 19 in the world and 18 in seeding, defeats the thirty-year-old Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Hebert, number 85 in the ATP ranking, with a score of 6-1, 4-6, 6-7 (4-7), 7 -5, 6-4 after three hours and 35 minutes. Sinner saved the match point under 5-4 in the 4th set.