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Cinà Outlasts Opelka in Paris Debut
Federico Cinà is nineteen, from Palermo, and now the first man born in 2007 to win a Grand Slam main-draw match.
A year ago in Miami he became the first of his birth year to win at Masters 1000 level.
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Cinà outlasts Opelka in Paris, three-plus hours
Federico Cinà saved match point down 0-40 in the fifth set against a man serving at 202 kilometers an hour, and then he broke him.
That is the sentence to hold onto. Everything else about the 19-year-old Palermitano's afternoon at Roland Garros — the heat pushing past ninety degrees, the vanished…
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Cinà's Roman wildcard, a set from Blockx
The first set belonged to Federico Cinà.
On the Roman clay, in front of a crowd that had come specifically to see what the wildcard could do, he took it 6-4 from Alexander Blockx and the rest of the draw…
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Cinà holds serve in Naples
On the Naples clay, Federico Cinà won the small war that decides most matches at this level: he held when he needed to and broke when the chance came.
Four break points, four conversions. Three break points faced, three saved. Forti, on the other side of the net, went one-for-four and watched the match tilt on those…
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