Jannik Sinner survives Jan-Lennard Struff 6-2 6-7(1) 7-6(3) in the quarter in Halle on Friday after conquering a huge battle. Sinner will fight against Zhizhen Zhang or Christopher Eubanks in the semifinal. The battle lasted 2 hours and 30 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the quarter in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Sinner added to his prize money € 59,160 after winning this match. He has already won € 120,960 as of now in the tournament. If he wins the next match, Jannik will add € 105,985 to his earnings to get in total € 226,945.
Highlights Jannik Sinner vs. Jan-Lennard Struff Terra Wortmann Open – Halle
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Italian scored 115 points vs. Jan-Lennard’s 107.
Sinner
Jannik served exceptionally well to win 86% of the points (55/64) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (17/33) on his second serve. Sinner blasted 14 aces and he committed 3 double faults. The Italian won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points after he converted only 11% (2/18) of the procured opportunities.
Struff
On the other side, Struff wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Sinner and Struff is 3-0 for Jannik.
Draw and next match H2H: Jannik Sinner vs. Zhizhen Zhang or Christopher Eubanks – stats
Sinner will fight against either Zhizhen Zhang or Christopher Eubanks in the semifinal. The head to head is 0-0 vs. Zhizhen Zhang and 2-0 vs. Christopher Eubanks.
Live score progression and stats
Jannik in this set was too good for Jan-Lennard and without struggling too much he won 6-2 after breaking Jan-Lennard in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Jannik failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 30.
Jan-Lennard was completely wiped out in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-2 to 6-2.
Jannik converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th
game (5-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Sinner didn’t concede a single break point during this set.They played 57 points. Jannik won 13 more points than Struff (35-22). Sinner conceded 5 points on serve (20-5). In addition, on the other side, Struff conceded 15 points on serve (17-15).
Jan-Lennard won the set after he broke Sinner .
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. On the other side, the Italian was flawless in converting all his break points in the 3rd
(2-1 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (3-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 14th game (5-7 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).They played 97 points. The German conquered the set after winning 9 points more than the Italian (53-44). The German lost 23 points on serve (44-23). On the losing side, Jannik conceded 9 points on serve (21-9).
Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Eventually, the Italian won the breaker at 7-3.
Tiebreak
Jannik won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 8th (6-2) and 10th (7-3) point.
Jannik won the tiebreak 7-3 after he conquered a decisive 3-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 6-3, 7-3
Sinner was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 9th game (4-4 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the German wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 6th game (3-2 30-40).
They played 70 points. The Italian was the one to win the set after conquering 4 more points than Struff (37-33). Jannik lost 8 points on serve (29-8). on the other side of the court, Jan-Lennard conceded 8 points on serve (25-8).
Tennis Scores in Halle
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Marcos GironGiron (7-65 6-4)
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-2 6-71 7-63)
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Arthur FilsFils (6-75 6-3 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-3) – H2H details and stats