Sinner puts an end to the winning campaign of ten-time champion Djokovic, faces Medvedev in the final

Italy’s Yannick Sinner on Friday ended 10-time champion Novak Djokovic’s winning streak at the Australian Open and entered his first Grand Slam final where he will face Russia’s Daniil Medvedev. In this way, Djokovic’s streak of consecutive wins at Melbourne Park was broken. Djokovic has previously won all 10 semi-finals and all 10 finals played on Rod Laver Arena. The 22-year-old Sinner broke Djokovic twice in the first two sets but despite missing a match point in the third set, entered the Grand Slam final for the first time. Sinner defeated Djokovic 6-1, 6-2, 6-7(6), 6-3 in the semi-finals. It was Sinner’s third win in four meetings against the Serbian star after losing to Djokovic in straight sets in last year’s Wimbledon semi-finals.

“It makes you feel good when you know you can beat a guy,” Sinner said. It’s always good to play against players you can learn from. “I lost to him in the semi-finals at Wimbledon last year and I learned a lot from that match,” he said. Djokovic won his first title at Melbourne Park in 2008. Sinner will now play third seed Daniil Medvedev on Sunday, who defeated sixth-ranked Alexander Zverev 5. 7, 3. 6, 7. 6, 7. 6, 6 Defeated by 3. Now Djokovic will have to wait to win his record 11th Australian Open and 25th major title overall. Djokovic had not lost a match at Melbourne Park since 2018 and was on a 33-match winning streak in the first major of the season. “He deserves to be in the final,” he said. He completely floored me. “I was surprised by my level,” Djokovic said.

I was not playing well in the first two sets. I think it was one of my worst Grand Slam matches. At least that’s what I remember. He said, “He was serving very accurately and was also saving his serve. He said, “Today I did a lot of negative things on the court from the game point of view, which I am not happy with. Return, movement, forehand, backhand, everything was bad. Sinner got off to a great start against a player who had lost in his only Grand Slam match last year, the Wimbledon final where he was defeated by Carlos Alcaraz. Fourth seed Sinner showed a composed game and did not make any mistakes in the first two sets and kept the pressure on Djokovic. Djokovic thus missed out on becoming the third player in history to win 11 trophies in any Grand Slam. Rafael Nadal has done this before by winning 14 French Open titles and Margaret Court 11 Australian Open women’s titles.

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