semifinal in Vienna and nearest Atp Finals
Vienna, Austria) – Jannik Sinner reaches the semifinals ofErste Bank Open in Vienna, Atp 500 tournament with a prize pool of 1,837,190 euros, which is being played on the fast indoor Wiener Stadthalle. The 20-year-old from South Tyrol, world number 11 and seeding 7, overtook the Norwegian in the quarter-finals Casper Ruud, number 8 in the ranking and 4 in the seeding, with a score of 7-5, 6-1 in an hour and 37 minutes of match. In tomorrow’s semifinal in Vienna, Sinner will face him United States Frances Tiafoe, number 49 in the world, who today surpassed the Argentine Diego Schwartzman by surprise. “I really enjoy playing here in Vienna, I like the people and I got excited even though today it wasn’t easy – Sinner said after the match – here are the perfect conditions for those players who hit the ball cleanly and so I did. But there is always room for improvement, so let’s see what happens in the next match“.
Sinner in the top 10: closest Atp Finals
Sinner’s success tonight also earned him the mathematician landing in ninth place in the next ATP ranking. The blue, who played a great match against Ruud, also wins valuable points in the race at Atp Finals of Turin, right against a direct opponent: thanks to tonight’s success the Italian tennis player has overtaken Rafa Nadal (who has already forfeited) and the Pole Hubert Hurkacz, climbing to eighth place in”Race to Turin“, behind Ruud himself, 90 points behind. The first 8 qualify for the Finals, of which 6 (Djokovic, Medvedev, Tsitsipas, Zverev, Rublev and Berrettini) already certain of participation.