03/29/2024 18:23hs. Updated on 03/29/2024 22:55hs.
It is true that whoever watches tennis from time to time has eyes for Novak Djokovic (1st) and Carlos Alcaraz (2nd), but they should also have eyes for Jannik Sinner (3rd), the Italian who is looking for with his game and triumphs stay at No. 1 in the ranking. He continues to demonstrate this at least at the Miami Masters 1000, where this Friday he crushed Daniil Medvedev (3rd) and will compete for the tournament title for the third time.
The tano, second seed and from the quarterfinals – after the fall of Alcaraz – top favorite, beat the Russian 6-1 and 6-2 in 69 minutes to take revenge for the 2023 final, which he precisely lost to his rival today.
In case of victory on Sunday, Sinner will remove Alcaraz from 2nd place on the listwho was surprised by Dimitrov on Thursday in the American cement.
Sinner, great generational rival of Alcaraz, will try to make up for his losses in the 2021 Miami finals against Hubert Hurkacz and the aforementioned against Medvedev on Sunday -which he did beat in the final of the Australian Open in February-, thus obtaining his second Masters 1000 trophy after last year in Toronto.
Medvedev had no answers (Reuter).
“I remember that the night before the (last) final I couldn’t sleep. I sweated during the night,” Sinner recalled in the post-win interview on the court.
“Now I’m in a much better situation. I’m just excited and happy to be back and I hope I can play good tennis on Sunday,” said the Italian, the eighth tennis player to reach three Miami finals and the youngest of them all to his 22 years.
Serena Williams watched the game (AFP).
This Friday, against a great hard court specialist like Medvedev (he is 6-5 in history), Sinner generated a masterpiece of play that confirms him as the fittest tennis player of this start of the season.
The winner of 12 titles leads the circuit in victories this year with 21 and has only one defeat, against Alcaraz, this month in the Indian Wells semifinals.
Sinner did not allow Medvedev to break him in the three opportunities available to the former world No. 1. The Italian gave the Russian a lesson in serving, with extraordinary effectiveness in the return and 16 winners for just three unforced errors.
In just over half an hour, Sinner had pocketed the first set after breaking Medvedev’s serve on his first two opportunities. The Russian, who reached this semifinal without giving up a set in this tournament, He exchanged glances with his coach and found no solutions to contain his rival.
Grigor Dimitrov went to the final (AP).
Faced with a Medvedev desperate for answers, Sinner did not take his foot off the accelerator and broke two more times in the second set to take a 5-1 lead. The Russian barely disguised the result by scoring another game before having to congratulate his young rival online.
The dangerous Dimitrov
Sinner’s rival is the winner of the closing of the day, Grigor Dimitrov (12th), who defeated the German Alexander Zverev (5th) 6-4, 6-7 (4) and 6-4 in a very even duel in the fact that The Bulgarian broke twice – both for 4-3 – and that was enough for him to take the first and third sets.. They were the only two break points that the winner had, while his rival also had two, but did not achieve any.
Sinner and Dimitrov played three games, with the Italian winning two.
The women’s final will be played on Saturday between the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (4th) and the American Danielle Collins (53rd).
2024-03-30 01:55:00
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