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I took pride in acing my classes, plus our family needed every extra cent.

To illustrate a 4% chance, he said, he would sometimes take out a deck of cards, shuffle them and tell patients, “You have to pick a black ace from the deck to have a baby.”

Sinner saved all seven break points he faced with his immense serve, with one ace leaving his 28-year-old German opponent biting his racquet in frustration.

“I’ve always been able to study up on something and ace something really fast. I thought it was all something special about me. Now it’s like, ‘Oh, a lot of Asperger’s people can do that.’

Alcaraz saw off a second break point with an ace and finally got out of the draining, 21-minute service game when Fritz fired long, celebrating as if he had won the match.