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• Fourth-seeded Sinner won all eight break points, saved himself from 1-5 in the second set tiebreak and beat fifth-seeded Andrejs Rublyova – 6-4, 7-6(5), 6-3).
• Sinners is still undefeated in the tournament and has only lost two service games.
• The 22-year-old Sinner, who reached the semifinals at Wimbledon last year, reached his second Grand Slam semifinal of his career and became only the second Italian to reach the semifinals in Melbourne after Matteo Berrettini years earlier.
• In the semifinals, Sinner will face the world’s best racket, 10-time Melbourne champion Novak Djokovic, who has won the Australian Open in four consecutive tournaments in which he has competed.
• Unlike Sinner, Djokovic lost a set – 7:6(3), 4:6, 6:2, 6:3 over Taylor Fritz (#12).
• In the first set, Djokovic missed eight break points and played a double set point on his serve, in the second set he gave away seven more break points, but in the following sets he took the American’s serve four times.
• Rublyov played in the Grand Slam quarter-finals for the tenth time, Fritz for the third time, but both have not yet reached the semi-finals.
“Australian Open” men’s singles, quarter-finals
Match result[1] Novak Djokovic – [12] Taylor Fritz7-6(3) 4-6 6-2 6-3[4] Jannik’s Sinner – [5] Andrejs Rublyovs 6:4 7:6(5) 6:3[2] Carlos Alcaraz – [6] Alexander Zverev[3] Daniil Medvedev – [9] Huberts Hurkacs
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