Jannik Sinner remains intractable. The Italian advanced to the semifinals of the Masters 1000 de Miami by beating the Czech 6-4 and 6-2 Tomas Machac60th and one of the big surprises of the contest, and advanced for the seventh time in his career to the semis of a tournament of this category.
The number three in the world added his twentieth victory of 2024 in which he suffered just one defeat, in the semis of Indian Wells ante Carlos Alcaraz. A statistic that places him in a special group and that predicts a great future for him. Because he became the seventh player to win at least 20 of his first 21 games in a season since 2000 and the other six who achieved it became number 1 in the ranking, Lleyton Hewitt, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic y Rafael Nadal.
Sinner, second favorite in the contest, made it into Miami’s best team for the third time. He had reached that stage in 2021, when he lost the final with the Pole Hubert Hurkaczand last year, when he also fell in the duel for the title against Daniil Medvedev. At 22 years and 223 days old, he is the youngest tennis player to reach that round in this tournament three times, improving the record of Jim Courierwho did it at 23 years and 214 days.
In addition to those three occasions in Florida, the Italian also played in the Indian Wells semis, Montecarlo y Toronto (he was champion) in 2023 and this season also in the Californian desert.
This Wednesday, he did not give Machac a chance, who was confident after surprising in the second round against Andrey Rublev (6th) and winning a great game against Andy Murray, former world number one, in his third presentation. With 16 winners, only four unforced errors and four breaks for and one against, Jannik sealed the victory in just one hour and 31 minutes.
His next rival will emerge from the duel that they will play, at the close of the day (not before 9:30 p.m. in Argentina), Medvedev, third favorite, and the Chilean Nicholas Jarry22° preclassified.
The quarterfinal duels will be completed this Thursday, in a day that will start at 2:00 p.m. with the clash between the German Alexander Zverev (4th) and Hungarian Fabian Marozsanthe big surprise of the contest, and will continue at 8 p.m. with the duel between the Spanish Alcaraz, top favorite, and the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (11°).
On the other hand, although the tournament ran out very quickly without Argentine representatives in singles, there will be an albiceleste racket in the doubles semis. Because Horacio Zeballos and spanish Marcel Granollers, fourth seeds, beat the British Lloyd Glasspool and the Dutch Jean-Julien Rojer in the quarterfinals 7-6 (7-4), 3-6 and 12-10. Now they will go for a place in the final against the top favorites, the Indian Rohan Bopanna and the Australian Matthew Ebden.
Collins, the semis for the second time
The American Danielle Collins advanced to the semis WTA 1000 of Miami for the second time by defeating the Frenchwoman 6-3 and 6-2 Caroline Garcia. In that instance he waits for the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova16th in the ranking, or her compatriot Jessica Pegulafive in the world.
Collin, 53rd in the world rankings, had reached this stage in the tournament for the first time in 2018, when she lost to the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko.
The other semifinal will be played this Thursday by the Kazakh Elena Rybakinadefending champion, and the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka.