Davis Cup, Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Sonego write history: Italy in final

Two historic victories in a couple of d'hours, to achieve an even more historic result.

Italy in the Davis Cup final for the first time since December 1998. That was the outcome of the two matches on a historic Saturday afternoon for Italian tennis, thanks to two victories over Serbia. The doubles one was decisive, in which Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Sonego bent the resistance of Novak Djokovic and Miomir Kecmanovic in two sets. All after the South Tyrolean had defeated Nole in singles as well.

The doubles match that launches Italy toward the final against Australia, scheduled for Sunday afternoon, ended 6-3, 6-4 after just over an hour and a half of play. For Sinner and Sonego in the first set è decisive was the sixth game, in which came the only break that made it 4-2 and a stretch that later proved decisive. Far more complex was the next set, which lasted almost twice as long as the first and in which the Azzurri needed a second break after Serbia in the fourth game had taken one in response to what had already happened in the game just before.

For Italy, then, comes a historic date, for Sinner yet another knockout figure on an unforgettable day. In fact, the San Candido prodigy beats Djokovic twice in a single day, having already annulled three consecutive match points in singles: no one before him had ever succeeded.