Jannik Sinner joins Matteo Berrettini in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.
On the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne the South Tyrolean defeated the home idol n.42 in the ranking and 32 in the seeding, Alex De Minaur in three sets with the score of (7-6, 6-3, 6-4).
After 31 years there is again the tricolor in the quarters of the Major Down Under. And a lot, because there is not only Matteo Berrettini: this time there are two blues, and it had never happened before. On day 8 on the Rod Laver Arena, Jannik Sinner also won a place among the best eight at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of 2022 (prize money of 54.2 million dollars) which went live on the Melbourne Park concrete in the Australian metropolis. As for Berrettini, fourth blue to finish so far Down Under after De Stefani (1935), Pietrangeli (1957) and Caratti (1991), the first ever to arrive in the quarters in all four majors, he will return to the field on Tuesday at hunting for a place in the semifinals. On Wednesday Sinner will play theentry into his first Grand Slam semifinal with the winner of the match between the American Taylor Fritz, n.22 ATP and 20th seeded, and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, n.4 in the ranking and seeding.
Daniil Medvedev overcomes the second round of the Australian Open beating the American Maxime Cressy: he finishes 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6 (4) -7, 7-5 for the number 2 in the world.
In the quarterfinals, the Russian will face Felix Auger-Aliassime: the Canadian overcomes Cilic in comeback, beaten with a score of 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2, 7-6 (4).
In the women's draw, the Romanian Simona Halep, knocked out in three sets (4-6, 6-3, 4-6) against the French Alize Cornet.
