Jannik Sinner returns to semifinals in Monte Carlo: bent Holger Rune in third set

Jannik Sinner returns to semifinals in Monte Carlo: folded Holger Rune in third set

Jannik Sinner after last year’s semifinal confirmed the same result in the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 by beating in an exciting match with the score of 6-4 6-7 6-3 the Dane Holger Rune. Tomorrow the world No. 2 will face Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas, who won this tournament in 2021 and 2022 and who swept the Russian Karen Khachanov with a dry 6-4 6-2.

The first to have to save a break ball è Sinner in the fourth game, but at 2-2 è he snatched the serve from Rune at 15, the rest of the set had little history and Jannik pocketed it in 42 minutes holding the’last serve to zero.

On 2-2 Rune climbs back from 0-40 on his serve by stringing five consecutive points. Same thing on 5-5 but on 0-30 he gets a warning for loss of time between points, makes an unsympathetic gesture to the audience and calls the supervisor to lose more time. He goes 0-40 and then a’s another time stringing five consecutive points.

Sinner holds the next serve to zero and so it goes to the tie-break. On 3-2 Rune a forehand of Sinner ends perhaps long but the umpire calls it good and Jannik canò replay the point, Rune misses the response and è 3-3. With a great pass Sinner wins 5-3, at 6-4 he has match point on his serve but Rune plays his best point of the match.

On the second match point Sinner puts wide the response, then Rune with a first winner goes him to play set point on 7-6 on which Sinner misses a backhand and it then goes to the third. On 2-2 Jannik from 30-0 has to save a break ball but Rune blatantly misses the short ball.

On 4-3 Sinner and Rune serve the Highlander goes to 15-40 and the Dane commits double fault on the first of two break balls. Sinner serves for the match, on 40-30 he has the third match point and closes with a winning first after two hours and 40 minutes a match that at one point è became a’true bullfight.