ATP Vienna Finals, Jannik Sinner wins first set in tie-break against Daniil Medvedev

Jannik Sinner wins the first set against Daniil Medvedev

Jannik Sinner won the first set of the final of the Vienna ATP, being held Sunday afternoon in the Austrian capital.

The South Tyrolean fought hard and was able first to come back from 3-1 down for the Russian and then to cancel a set point at 6-5. Also hard-fought was the mini-game to decide the fraction, which Sinner won 9-7 by canceling another set point for his opponent. 62 the total minutes of play in a very intense match so far.

Jannik Sinner, in previous rounds, defeated Ben Shelton, Lorenzo Sonego, Francis Tiafoe and Andrey Rublev, always managing to prevail two sets to zero.

Medvedev è instead reached the final after beating Arthur Fils in two sets, Grigor Dimitrov and Karen Khachanov in three fractions, and Stefanos Tsitsipas in two sets.