There’s Andrey Rublev for Jannik Sinner

Andrey Rublev will be Jannik Sinner's opponent at the Australian Open quarterfinals

Andrey Rublev will be Jannik Sinner's opponent in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open 2024: the Russian tennis player, number 5 in the ATP world rankings, got the better of host Alex De Minaur at the end of a marathon that lasted four hours and fifteen minutes and ended after five sets.

6-4, 6(5)-7, 6(4)-7, 6-3, 6-0 were the partials in favor of Rublev, who after suffering a comeback by the Australian clearly took the reins of the match, going on to win it with relative ease in the final hour of play, leaving only three games to his opponent in the last two sets.

The first of the two days devoted to the Australian Open round of 16 closes, then, with victories for Novak Djokovic over Adrian Mannarino, Talyor Fritz over Stefanos Tsitsipas, Jannik Sinner over Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev over Alex De Minaur. The other round of 16 are Cazaux-Hurkacz, Borges-Medvedev, Zverev-Norrie and Kecmanovic-Alcaraz.

Already set, therefore, are the first two quarters, the one between Djokovic and Fritz and the one between Sinner and Rublev: the South Tyrolean and the Russian have met six times on the ATP circuit, with four wins by Sinner and two by Rublev. The last precedent dates back to the semifinals of the 2023 Vienna ATP: the Italian won 7-5, 7-6(5).