Sinner beats De Minaur in the quarterfinals and goes to the semifinals of the Australian Open

And there are 10. Ten victories out of as many matches with Alex De Minaur, who even in the first Slam quarterfinals in front of the home crowd lost in a match without history 6-3 6-2 6-1 in 1 hour and 48 minutes to Jannik Sinner , which thus reaches Ben Shelton in the semifinals. The road towards confirmation of the title for Jannik continues, and if he were to pass the test with the American left-handed player among the few to manage to beat him (Shanghai 2023), Jannik would play for an encore in Australia against the winner between Sascha Zverev and Novak Djokovic.

HE MATCH

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Little to say, or do for the Australian number 8 in the world against a Sinner who seemed reborn compared to the match against Holger Rune in the round of 16 when he was even feared to retire due to the after-effects of indigestion. Indeed, even today, a few minutes before the match began, uncontrolled rumors had spread of Jannik’s possible retirement, this time due to pneumonia, the latest addition to the list of ailments attributed to him in the last 36 hours. It was said about the match: break almost immediately in the first set for Sinner who took the lead in the 4th game at the second break point, misleading Alex, a friend and former doubles partner. Partial that goes to archive in 38 minutes of play. In the second, the break came immediately, in the first game against a De Minaur who was powerless to maintain the frenetic pace imposed by the world number 1 and was again forced to give up the serve in the 5th game for the 4-1 Jannik. This time Sinner needs two more minutes, 40, to move ahead 2 sets to zero. The third is a martyrdom for poor De Minaur, who shoots and finds the ball on him at double speed without the possibility of thinking. Not even the home crowd, who rejoices at every 15 brought home by their champion, manages to shake the Australian top 10 who immediately end up 4-0 down and lose the match with a double break, 6-1.