Jannik Sinner recovered from a weak start, won in straight sets against the American Tommy Paul and reached the quarterfinals of the US Openinstance in which it will be measured with Daniil Medvedev in a duel between two of the main candidates to win the tournament and in the reissue of the Australian Open final.
The Italian Sinner, number one in the ATP ranking, and the Russian Medvedev, US Open champion in 2021, are the only Grand Slam tournament winners still alive in Flushing Meadows after the early eliminations of Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz.
The Italian star He rowed for almost three hours before claiming victory minutes before dawn for 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/5) and 6-1. As the game progressed, there were many chants of “USA!” or “Come on, Tommy! Come on!”.
There were also several moments when spectators applauded after Sinner’s fouls, considered bad tennis etiquette, prompting repeated reprimands from the chair umpire, who asked that no noise be made between the first and second serves.
Sinner raised a disadvantage 4-1 to take the first set in the tiebreak. The second round was also resolved in the tiebreaker and in the third the local player could do little in the face of an almost impossible mission.
The world number one landed in New York surrounded by enormous controversy due to his double positive for clostebol in March, of which he was acquitted a week before the US Open because it was determined that the contamination was involuntary.
Now, it is found three games away from being crowned champion for the first time in Flushing Meadowsfor which he needs to get a Medvedev in a great moment of form out of the way. “It will be a tough match. There will be many exchanges and I will have to be ready mentally and physically, it will be a great match,” predicted Sinner.
Hours earlier, Medvedev, number five in the world ranking, swept the Portuguese Nuno Borges with a resounding 6-0, 6-1 and 6-3 and qualified for the quarterfinals of the United States Open for the fifth time in the last six years.
The champion of the 2021 edition, when he denied Serbian Novak Djokovic the ‘big’ poker, barely needed one hour and 51 minutes to impose his law against Borges, who arrived for the first time in his career at this point in a ‘Grand’. Slam’.
Sinner captured his first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January by defeating Medvedev in five sets in the final after losing the first two sets. Both tennis players also faced each other in the Wimbledon quarterfinals in July, although on that occasion it was the Russian who ended up celebrating.
With information from agencies.