Jannik Sinner has downed Emil Ruusuvuori to safe his berth within the Miami Open semi-finals and convey up his twentieth win of the season.
Italian Sinner, who dropped just one level on his first serve on Wednesday, gained 6-3 6-1 over the Finn in 76 minutes.
The 21-year-old will face both prime seed and defending champion Carlos Alcaraz or American Taylor Fritz within the final 4.
Spanish teenager Alcaraz and Fritz’s Miami quarter-final was postponed with persistent rain forcing the night session in Florida to be cancelled.
The different quarter-finals between 14th seed Karen Khachanov and twenty fifth seed Francisco Cerundolo together with fourth seed Daniil Medvedev and qualifier Christophr Eubanks had been additionally re-scheduled for Thursday.
The Sinner-Ruusuvuori conflict was additionally impacted by a two-hour rain delay, however the tenth seed prevailed to take care of his good document in Miami, having not dropped a set.
“We both played well today but I won the important points,” Sinner mentioned.
“It’s never easy when you are up and you get interrupted, but I came back and played well.”
Sinner’s run to the Miami semi-finals has seen him drop the fewest video games (23) since Rafael Nadal (21) and Novak Djokovic (23) in 2014.
The world No.11 turned the seventh male to succeed in the semis at each Indian Wells and Miami in a single 12 months earlier than turning 22, becoming a member of an elite checklist in Andre Agassi (1990), Jim Courier (1991), Djokovic (2007), Andy Murray (2007 and 2009), Nadal (2008) and Alcaraz (2022).
Sinner’s 2023 document is now 20-4, bettered solely by Medvedev (26-3) and Cameron Norrie (21-5).
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
