MELBOURNE (Australia) – Jannik Sinner returns to the field for the 4th round (round of 16) of the Australian Open 2024. The South Tyrolean tennis player will face the Russian number 15 in the world Karen Khachanov as well as semi-finalist of the last edition. After three matches won on the pitch (0 sets lost and the one with the least amount of time on the court) the first acid test in the Australian slam arrives for Jannik, the tennis player himself declared: “It will be a tough match. He always gets excited in the Slams, and every time we have faced each other they have always been long matches and often ended in tie breaks. We have a similar style of play, we like to play with pace and also physically we are players who move and cover the pitch well. However, he has improved a lot and he has also made some progress when serving. It will be a complicated match but this is why we train, round after round the level will rise and become more and more difficult“.
Sinner-Khachanov: i precedents
Sinner and Khachanov faced each other 3 times with the Italian ahead 2-1 in direct clashes as well as winning in the last two matches (Melbourne 1 and the Masters 1000 in Miami both in 2021). The two tennis players have always faced each other on hard courts and tomorrow’s match will be the 2nd clash in a slam, in fact in the 1st match it was the Russian who prevailed at the US Open winning 7-6 in the 5th set.
2° set: Sinner-Khachanov 7-5
Suffering and taking risks, Sinner also wins the second set. Break and counterbreak in the first two games with Jannik appearing more on his feet. But the script changes in the eleventh game: Khachanov goes out, Jannik takes a new break point by scoring with a forehand that draws applause from the entire audience. The twelfth game is without appeal: the eighth ace of the match gives the blue the second set.
1° set: Sinner-Khachanov 6-4
Jannik wins the first set 6-4 in 51′. The turning point came during the third game, when Khachanov’s two errors coming off serve allowed the blue to earn the first three break points of the match: the first was the good one. Three counterbreak balls were saved by Sinner in the last game of the first set, brought home with a champion’s reaction.
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2024-01-21 06:47:00
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