Roland Garros, semifinals: Jannik Sinner doubles his lead over Novak Djokovic
Jannik Sinner doubles his set lead against Novak Djokovic in the second semifinal of Roland Garros 2025: in fact, the South Tyrolean also ended the second set in his favor, thanks to 7 games won against the Serb’s 5 at the end of a set that lasted one hour and 11 minutes. Open applause for the two contenders, protagonists of a match of the highest level.
Sinner was off to a good start already in the first set of the Roland Garros semifinal. In fact, the world number one, against Novak Djokovic, number 6 in the ranking and seeding, had won the first set 6-4 after 46 minutes of play, reacting to a somewhat’ contracted start with a few strokes capable of undermining the confidence with which Nole had presented himself to the match on Friday night.
The two men had already started off on the right foot in the first set of the Roland Garros semifinal.
Jannik Sinner arrived in Paris as the No. 1 seed, and from the first round onwards he overcame France’s Arthur Rinderknech 6-4, 6-3, 7-5, the other transalpine Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-0, 6-4, Czech Jiri Lehecka 6-0, 6-1, 6-2, Russia’s Andrey Rublev 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 and Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik, beaten Wednesday by a score of 6-1, 6-5, 6-0.
Djokovic, on the other hand, reached the semifinals of the Paris slam on the wave of the 100th ATP tournament he won in his career, in Geneva: the Serb beat American Mackenzie McDonald with a triple 6-3, Frenchman Corentin Moutet 6-2, 6-2, 7-6(1), Austrian Filip Misolic 6-3, 6-4, 6-2, Britain’s Cameron Norrie 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, and German Alexander Zverev 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.
