Jannik Sinner will face Alexander Bublik for a place in the Miami Open semifinal on Wednesday. Jannik and Alexander played each other only once and thgt was just 15 days ago in Dubai where Sinner won 2-6 7-6(2) 6-4 in the 2nd round. The match lasted 2 hours and 1 minute.
Sascha Bublik was deeply impressed by Jannik and his maturity during that match. Here he stats and the highlights
Highlights Jannik Sinner vs. Alexander Bublik Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Sinner scored 90 points vs. the Kazakhstani’s 85.
Sinner
Sinner was effective at converting 50% of the break points that he procured (2/4).
Bublik
On the other side, Alexander was well focused in converting 60% of the break points that he conquered points (3/5). However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Sinner and Bublik is 1-0 for Jannik.
Live score progression and stats
Bublik in this set played at a much higher level than Jannik and finally he won 6-2 after breaking Jannik in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
A defining moment of this set was when Alexander won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Sinner had no problems to win the tiebreak 7-2.
Tiebreak
The Italian won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0) and 9th (7-2) point. On the other side, the Kazakhstani won a minibreak in the 8th (2-6) point.
Sinner won the tiebreak 7-2 after he conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 6-2, 7-2
The Italian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 2 points (28-2). on the other side of the court, Bublik conceded 9 points on serve (24-9).
The Italian won the set after he broke the Kazakhstani in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Bublik tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (4-4) game. Nevertheless, the Italian kept the situation under control to conquer the set 6-4.
They contested 60 points. Jannik conquered the set after winning 10 points more than Bublik (35-25). Jannik conceded 5 points on serve (17-5). on the other side of the court, the Kazakhstani conceded 18 points on serve (20-18).