A scintillating Jannik Sinner asphalts Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Sinner advances to the quarterfinals, where he will face Stan Wawrinka

Fresh off a three-set victory over Frenchman Bonzi, who was folded 6-1 in the third set in the round of 16, Jannik Sinner was expected to test Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Greek top five who had already beaten him in five sets in the epic clash at the Australian Open: a test he passed with flying colors.

In the match, valid for the round of 16 of the ATP 500 tournament in Rotterdam, the San Candido native played a practically perfect match, imposing himself 6-4 6-3 without ever conceding even a break ball to his opponent. The statistics tell of a match dominated by Sinner in all the most relevant items: 20 wins against only 8 by his opponent, with a 61 percent first serve rate on the court, yielding 89 percent return.

The Azure thus avenged the bitter defeat suffered at the hands of the Hellenic in the aforementioned encounter on Australian soil. Now on the road of Riccardo Piatti’s former student is Stan Wawrinka, who has already beaten Sinner at the Us Open and in Antwerp. But that was 2019: now the music may be totally different.