MONACO — Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner overcame sturdy resistance from Holger Rune to achieve the Monte Carlo Masters semifinals for the second straight 12 months and arrange a gathering with two-time champion Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Rune saved two match factors within the second-set tiebreaker earlier than Sinner got here out on prime with a 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 win. The match was a repeat of final 12 months’s semifinal, when Rune beat Sinner on the clay-court match.
Tsitsipas eased into the semifinals by defeating Karen Khachanov 6-4, 6-2.
Rune saved two consecutive match factors within the tiebreaker, together with one with an enormous forehand winner. However he cracked within the eighth sport of the decider after Sinner earned two break factors with an outstanding backhand return, double-faulting on the following level.
Tsitsipas dropped solely 5 factors on his first serve and hit 20 winners to enhance his file towards his Russian rival to 8-1.
The Twelfth-ranked Greek participant arrived within the Principality on the again of a mediocre begin to the season, having reached the semifinals at only one match. He has not dropped a set on the Nation Membership, the place he claimed back-to-back titles in 2021 and 2022.
“I might lie if I stated it doesn’t deliver good recollections stepping out on this court docket,” Tsitsipas stated. “It’s one thing that I attribute a few of my performances right here over time to. I come again right here, and I form of relive these recollections of the previous.”
Khachanov known as the physio at 2-2 within the second set to get remedy on his leg however didn’t appear hampered in his motion afterward.
“He appeared good and properly composed in his tennis,” Tsitsipas stated. “He wasn’t freely giving too many unforced errors and appeared fairly calm from behind the baseline.”
Prime-ranked Novak Djokovic takes on Alex De Minaur and Ugo Humbert faces Casper Ruud in Friday’s different quarterfinals.
