MELBOURNE – Jannik Sinner’s face can be as inscrutable as a priest’s at mass. Carlos Alcaraz clenches a passionate fist to validate a great shot. It doesn’t matter what you might see at the Australian Open, the grand, emotional struggles of tennis are in fact occurring out of view. In the athlete’s head skirmishes are breaking out as voices bounce around the skull.
“Nervousness. Doubt.”
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