Jannik Sinner finds another flaw after crashing Ben Shelton

At the end of the match he won against Ben Shelton, Jannik Sinner volunteered to answer questions from Jim Courier: “It’s always tough playing with Ben, he has an incredible serve. And he gets better every year. I am very happy with my performance”. The world and seeded number two beat Shelton, number 7 in the ATP rankings and number 8 in the seedings, for the ninth consecutive time in three sets, with a final score of 6-3 6-4 6-4 after just over two and a half hours of play centering his third consecutive semifinal at the Australian Open.

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The U.S. pointed out to him that his compatriot had repeatedly exceeded 220 mph on his serve, and the South Tyrolean replied with irony: “I’m not very strong in math – he remarked – but I know how complicated it is to answer him: he’s left-handed and his second serves are tricky, too. I think I found the solution” though. And the numbers prove the Blue right, who won as many as twelve break points in the entire match, converting only three but still decisive in each set.

Good news also came from the athletic point of view, after a few setbacks in the previous rounds: “The match with Darderi gave me a lot of confidence in this aspect: physically I am continuing to improve”. With the exception of the crazy match against Eliot Spizzirri, Sinner always won in three sets with his opponents (in the first round, two were enough after Hugo Gaston withdrew), which allowed him to save his energy for the final rounds.

In the semifinals awaits him Novak Djokovic, a name that needs no introduction: “We are lucky to have a champion like Novak, who at his age can still express himself at this level. It will be a beautiful and complicated challenge.” Then, with a smile, he added: “If I can, I will also check out the semifinal between Alcaraz and Zverev”.

Lorenzo Musetti came out of the Australian Open in the worst possible way. L’Azzurro dominated the first two sets against the’eternal Nole Djokovic but, in the third set, suffered a physical problem, probably to the right adductor, that forced him to raise the white flag. Nole Djokovic qualifies for the semifinals in Melbourne without even having won a set against the Carrara man who chews bitterly for a very unfortunate epilogue.