After the hard day that had him on the verge of abandoning in the third round, Jannik Sinner (2°) won again at the Australian Open and he did it forcefully to get into the quarterfinals. After two hours and eight minutes in which the Italian showed a great level, Carrot defeated his compatriot Luciano Darderi (25th) 6-1, 6-3 and 7-6 (2).
With the Margaret Court Arena (the second stadium of the tournament) as the setting, the tanos were measured in a match that Sinner began leading from minute zero. Maintaining his powerful serve – he closed the match with 19 aces -, The 1.91 meter right-hander broke Dardieri’s serve twice and, without further complications, took the first set with a blunt 6 to 1.
This trend that led him to win this first set was also maintained during the second for a Sinner who served so well that even He even won an entire game with consecutive aces (the one at 4-3). With a break in the third and final game of the set, the 24-year-old tennis player won again and took the score to 2-0.
Although with this result Sinner was one set away from qualifying for the quarterfinals, Dardieri did not stop fighting and maintained his serve until forcing the tie-break. But it was there that the world number 2 took a step forward and won the match thanks to the 7 to 2 he achieved in this last game of the match, thus getting into the quarterfinals of the tournament, where he will play with Ben Shelton.
Sinner was solid (Reuters).With this victory, Sinner achieved an important winning streak in the first Grand Slam of the year. After this result, The Italian reached 18 consecutive wins at the Australian Opena figure that left him 13 away from the historic record he holds Novak Djokovic (4th) since AO 2024.
Video: the game that Sinner won with only aces
Date, time and TV of the 4th finals of the Australian Open
26/01, n/a 23.30: Alexander Zverev (3°) vs. Learner Tien (29°)
01/27, 6.10: Carlos Alcaraz (1st) vs. Alex de Minaur (6th)
Date and time to be defined: Lorenzo Musetti (5th) vs. Novak Djokovic (4th)
Date and time to be defined: Ben Shelton (7th) vs. Jannik Sinner (2nd)
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