Jannik Sinner advanced to the semi-finals of the Halle grass-court competition on Friday despite an explosion of serves from Jan-Lennard Struff. Despite serving up eighteen aces and saving sixteen of eighteen breakpoints, Germany’s Struff lost to the Italian in straight sets, 6-2, 6-7 (1/7), and 7-6 (7/3).
Sinner will compete against Christopher Eubanks of the United States or Zhang Zhizhen of China to advance to the competition final, which serves as an important warmup to Wimbledon, which begins on July 1.
Sinner acknowledged that it was a very tough tournament in Halle. He expressed his thoughts about it in the post-match press conference and said: “It was a very tough match. I had chances in the second, had chances in the third, but couldn’t use them. It was 0/40 [in the first game of the third set]. I just try to accept these kind of challenges. Obviously, it has been very tough, also mentally.”
He added: “I’m very pleased to be in the next round, I played a lot yesterday, and I played a lot also today — two and a half hours on grass, it’s a long time. I’ll try to recover for tomorrow and hopefully show some good tennis.”
Sinner in Halle, ranking, and results in 2024
Now ranked no.1, the Italian has a composed 36-3 match record in 2024. Jannik is currently playing in Halle where he toppled the world no.27 Tallon Griekspoor 6-78 6-3 6-2, the world no.45 Fabian Marozsan 6-4 6-74 6-3 and the world no.41 Jan-Lennard Struff 6-2 6-71 7-63.
Jannik Sinner will fight against the world no.42 Zhizhen Zhang in the semifinal on Saturday at 3:00 pm on OWL ARENA. In the past, they have never competed against each other so far in top tournaments.
Sinner conquered 3 titles in 2024 at the Australian Open, Rotterdam and Miami.
Sinner won 14 titles in his career: 6 on hard courts, 1 on clay courts and 7 on indoor courts. (See the list of his titles)
Sinner has scheduled to compete next at the Wimbledon (Wimbledon). He will start the tournament from the main draw that will commence on the 1st of July.
Jannik Sinner |
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