ATP Vienna, Jannik Sinner completes the job: Daniil Medvedev knocked out, reached Adriano Panatta

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Jannik Sinner wins the Vienna ATP

Jannik Sinner è the winner of the ATP 500 tournament in Vienna: the South Tyrolean, No. 4 in the ranking and No. 2 seed in the tournament, beat the No. 1 seed (and No. 3 in the world) Daniil Medvedev 7-6(7), 4-6, 6-3, at the end of a real marathon that lasted three hours and four minutes.

The match è was hard-fought from the very first bars: already in the first set it was over the hour of play, with the two contenders arriving at the tie-break where Sinner è was good at cancelling a set point to his opponent going on to win in the advantages.

In the second fraction there's been the only real down moment of the match for Sinner, who ahead 2-1 gave up four consecutive games to the Russian, who was good at containing the San Candido native's counter-reaction and closing the set in his favor.

Sinner then took the lead in the deciding set: at 5-3 he even had a first ball to close out the match, which the defending tournament champion è was good at cancelling. Decisive, then, was the ninth game, in which Sinner did not tremble, going on to win his tenth career ATP circuit tournament (equaled Adriano Panatta).

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