The Italian Jannik Sinner beat the American Taylor Frtiz (6-4, 6-4) this Tuesday in the ATP Finals, which are being held in Turin (Italy), a result that brings him closer to the semifinals, while the Russian Daniil Medvedev has beaten Alex de Miñaur (6-2, 6-4) and his continuity in the competition will be at stake on Thursday against the transalpine.
In the Ilie Nastase Group, Sinner, number one in the world and who defeated De Miñaur in his debut, continues without giving up sets in the Italian city, where he has added his eighth consecutive victory to get closer to the semifinals that he already visited last year, where he was a finalist in a match that he lost to Serbian Novak Djokovic.
Two breaks, one at the end of each set, were enough for Sinner – who saved the only break point he had to face in the seventh game of the opening set – to defeat his opponent in one hour and 40 minutes. With this, he sealed his eighth consecutive victory, seventh in straight sets.
This Thursday he will seek to get into the semifinals against Daniil Medvedev, number four in the ATP ranking and who also beat De Miñaur, ninth in the world, in two sets. Fritz, for his part, needs to beat the Australian to stay alive.
The Russian tennis player, who still has a chance of progressing to the semi-finals despite the loss in his debut against Fritz, needed one hour and 18 minutes at the Inalpi Arena to overcome his rival in a match in which he did not even have He had to face breaking balls against him and he won with 84% of points won with his first serve.
The winner of the 2020 ATP Finals escaped 5-1 in the first set, tighter than the light indicated due to the long exchanges in the first games, and took it at his first opportunity. Already in the second set, it was not until the ninth game when he broke the oceanic’s serve to win the match.
In the doubles category, the Spanish Marcel Granollers and the Argentine Horacio Zeballos, second seeds, fell in the Mike Bryan Group against the pair formed by the Dutch Wesley Koolhof and the Croatian Nikola Mektic (4-6, 7-6 (6), 10-8), 2020 ATP Finals champions.