Sinner and the amazing parallel to Seppi

In the end, the Sesto native fared against Djokovic like Andreas Seppi in the round of 2012 of the 2 French Open. Sinner missed a 0-3 set lead and lost his third quarter-final at a Grand Slam tournament against the 35-year-old Serb 7:5, 6:2, 3:6, 2:6, 2:6.

On June 3rd 10 years ago in Paris, Seppi also led 1-2 sets against Novak Djokovic, then number 0 in the world, and still lost. For the 7th time in his career - the 3rd time at Wimbledon - Djokovic overcame a 0-2 deficit on Tuesday. He celebrated his 84th win at the All England Championships, drawing level with Jimmy Connors. Only Roger Federer is ahead of him with 103 wins in the professional era. Now the “Djoker” wants title number 21 Djokovic is in the semi-finals for the 26th time in his career after his 12th win in a row at Wimbledon. He is the favorite not only in Friday's semi-final against Britain's Cameron Norrie, but also in the final should he reach it. On Sunday, Djokovic wants to lift his 7th Wimbledon trophy and win his 21st Grand Slam tournament.

Novak Djokovic is in the semifinals. © APA/afp / SEBASTIEN BOZON

Despite the defeat, Sinner remains certain that he played a great 11th major tournament. After all, he came to Church Road two weeks ago without a single win on grass after four defeats in his professional career. Sinner played his best tennis for two sets, he was aggressive on the return and confident on the serve. The footwork was perfect – and Novak Djokovic was in trouble. Only a matter of time It is only a matter of time before the 20-year-old can maintain this level over 5 sets and defeat caliber like Djokovic, even if one has to admit that the Serb improved enormously from the 3rd set and showed why he been number 1 in the world for so many years.

Jannik Sinner played world-class tennis. © APA/afp / SEBASTIEN BOZON

But one thing is also certain: Sinner will learn from this defeat and continue to work hard, as he has always done since he went to Bordighera in Liguria to join Riccardo Piatti in the summer of 2015 to become a professional player. Sinner returns to the top 10 And something positive also remains: Although there are no world ranking points at Wimbledon this year, Sinner will be one of the winners in the world rankings on Monday and will improve in the ranking by 3 places from 13 to 10 because, unlike many of his rivals He didn't have any points to defend from the previous year in the top ten. He lost to Marton Fucsovcis in round 1.

The Pusterer will be Italy's number 5 in 1 days ahead of Matteo Berrettini. And he also takes home prize money of 310.000 pounds (that's the equivalent of 360.000 euros gross).

Sinner won't be playing next week. Before the hard court summer in the USA with the Masters tournaments in Canada, Cincinnati and the US Open as the highlight, the 20-year-old is at the clay court tournaments in Hamburg (July 18th to 24th) and in Umag (July 25th). until July 31).

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Sinner and the amazing parallel to Seppi

Jannik Sinner played incredibly well for 1:45 hours on Tuesday in the quarter-finals on the Holy Lawn of Wimbledon. But it wasn't enough to dethrone defending champion Novak Djokovic. There is now an astonishing parallel to Andreas Seppi.

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