2024-01-21 08:20:00
“Sinner manages to go one step further every time he has to,” said impressed expert Boris Becker at Eurosport and stated: “That was a perfect first week.”
The South Tyrolean is now in the last eight for the sixth time in his 17th Grand Slam participation. Last year Sinner even reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon and then played a strong second half of the season.
“I’m very happy regarding the victory,” said Sinner: “We have very similar styles, sometimes it’s a bit like ping-pong between us.”
After reaching the final of the ATP Finals and winning the Davis Cup with Italy, the 21-year-old seems to have carried his strong form from autumn into the new year.
Sinner without “Carota Boys” in the quarterfinals
Even without the support of his noble fans “Carota Boys”, Sinner once once more showed a concentrated performance once morest Khachanov.
His “poker face” was partly just a facade, he said in the on-court interview: “Outwardly I try to appear calm, but inside you are occupied with a lot of emotions and feelings during a tennis match.”
He still wants to go into the upcoming quarter-finals “with a smile and enjoy it.”
Khachanov, meanwhile, missed out on making a splash like he did last year in Australia when he made it to the semi-finals. The Russian also mightn’t improve his poor record once morest top 5 players – which now stands at 1:19.
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