Sonego flies to the third round: marathon at Wimbledon
Sonego wins the marathon against Diallo and faces Fritz in the third round.
Lorenzo Sonego demonstrated iron mental strength on the Wimbledon grass, surviving a four-hour war against Gabriel Diallo to reach the third round. The Italian didn't just play tennis, he managed a constant emergency, turning a match that could have slipped away into a trap into a triumph of resistance. The final score reads 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 6-7, 6-2, but the numbers do not tell the story of the effort spent on each point.
Sonego had to digest the paradox of dominating the tie-breaks of the first two partial sets won, only to suffer the return of a never tamed Diallo in the fourth set. The blue's reaction in the last set was surgical: no hesitation, just aggressive tennis to close 6-2 and send the Canadian home. What emerges is a statistical fact that scares his opponents: Sonego is now perfect in the decisive sets at SW19.
