May 29, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 12 segments
Episode 154 of Tripp's Tennis Talk is a recap of the second round from Roland Garros 2026. Juan Manuel Cerundolo was declared the winner after one of the most shocking results in many years, rallying…
With that out of the way, let's get to the main story of the day, the biggest tennis upset of the year and of the last many years, Juan Manuel Cerundolo's inexplicable five-set victory over Jannik Sinner today in the second round of Roland Garros.
Let's start at the macro level, and then we'll get to the bigger picture here.
So sitting down to watch the match, this match was 6-3, 6-2, 5-1, and I was watching it on replay knowing the result.
And at this point in the match, 5-1 in the third set, the result going the other way feels inexplicable, and it felt inexplicable from that point onwards as well.
Yes, Sinner was not at his absolute peak in those first two and a half sets, but it was 6-3, 6-2, 5-1.
And if you guys have seen any tennis, we have seen this dozens, if not hundreds of times, if you've been around over the years.
Early round Grand Slam victories with top players against huge underdogs.
These kind of scorelines are routine.
Sometimes things might happen within them.
Maybe a top player drops a couple games at the end, or maybe they have a particular shot that they're working on that comes under scrutiny in a match.
But even if a player has had physical issues, "Oh, in the last game or two of that match, he might have tweaked the leg," we've heard that so many times on television coverage and media coverage over the years, and it's totally normal.
And that's what we had here.
Yes, it was the middle of the day.
Yes, Sinner looked to be not the happiest guy out there.
No matter how long you're out there, if you're out there for 45 minutes, if you're out there for two hours, if you're out there for four hours, yes, you're a human being.
You feel the heat and conditions.
Yes, Sinner has had issues with these types of conditions, these hot conditions in the past.
Even so, taking all of that into account, he should have closed this out.
It's inexplicable.
That's the word that I keep coming back to.
It's inexplicable.
And [sighs] it's, it's odd.
This is a weird one.
I have my notebook here, but doing a play-by-play of what happened is almost useless because the match just sort of stopped at 5-1 in the third set.
With that out of the way, let's get to the main story of the day, the biggest tennis upset of the year and of the last many years, Juan Manuel Cerundolo's inexplicable five-set victory over Jannik Sinner today in the second round of Roland Garros.
Let's start at the macro level, and then we'll get to the bigger picture here.
So sitting down to watch the match, this match was 6-3, 6-2, 5-1, and I was watching it on replay knowing the result.
And at this point in the match, 5-1 in the third set, the result going the other way feels inexplicable, and it felt inexplicable from that point onwards as well.
Yes, Sinner was not at his absolute peak in those first two and a half sets, but it was 6-3, 6-2, 5-1.
And if you guys have seen any tennis, we have seen this dozens, if not hundreds of times, if you've been around over the years.
Early round Grand Slam victories with top players against huge underdogs.
These kind of scorelines are routine.
Sometimes things might happen within them.
Maybe a top player drops a couple games at the end, or maybe they have a particular shot that they're working on that comes under scrutiny in a match.
But even if a player has had physical issues, "Oh, in the last game or two of that match, he might have tweaked the leg," we've heard that so many times on television coverage and media coverage over the years, and it's totally normal.
And that's what we had here.
Yes, it was the middle of the day.
Yes, Sinner looked to be not the happiest guy out there.
No matter how long you're out there, if you're out there for 45 minutes, if you're out there for two hours, if you're out there for four hours, yes, you're a human being.
You feel the heat and conditions.
Yes, Sinner has had issues with these types of conditions, these hot conditions in the past.
Even so, taking all of that into account, he should have closed this out.
It's inexplicable.
That's the word that I keep coming back to.
It's inexplicable.
And [sighs] it's, it's odd.
This is a weird one.
I have my notebook here, but doing a play-by-play of what happened is almost useless because the match just sort of stopped at 5-1 in the third set.
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