A Jannik Sinner not at his best surrenders to the Russian Danil Medvedev in the Wimbledon quarterfinals at the end of a battle of five sets and four hours : 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 2-6, 6-3 the score in favor of the Russian number 5 in the world.
The South Tyrolean wins a hard-fought first set 9-7 in the tiebreak. But already from the beginning of the second the body language is eloquent, and tells us of a Jannik who is not at his best. Medvedev goes ahead by a break and keeps it until the end of the set. In the third, the Russian is immediately ahead again, Sinner feels ill and calls a medical timeout due to dizziness . Game stopped for 11 minutes, we return and the blue manages to recover the deficit at the last moment, taking it to the tiebreak. Here, however, Medvedev prevailed 7-4.
In the fourth set Sinner goes up, Medvedev makes a lot of mistakes and ends 6-2. The decisive sliding door between the third and fourth game of the fifth and decisive set. First Sinner misses four forehands in a game in which Medvedev gives away and the break could be obtained, then he goes 0-40 down and Medvedev scores the decisive break at this point .
Great match from the Russian. It took a 100% Sinner to beat him, and today's one wasn't. The Italian was also not very tactically lucid and when he varied his game with attacks to the net and short balls he managed to put Medvedev in difficulty. But in the decisive set he returned to his baseline game unchanged, and the Russian who had the most deservedly prevailed.
(Unioneonline)
