Jannik Sinner cruised past Danil Medvedev 6-1 6-2 to reach the third final of his career at the Miami Open. Sinner is one win away from his third title of the season.
Medvedev still holds a 6-5 lead against Sinner, but the Italian player has won five consecutive matches against his Russian opponent. At last January’s Australian Open he came back from two sets down to beat Medvedev in an epic five-set final claiming his first Grand Slam title.
Sinner converted his third break point in the second game to open up a 2-0 lead. The 12-time titlist went up a 4-0 lead on his fourth break point and held serve at 15 to race out to a 5-0 lead. Medvedev avoided the bagel by holding serve at love in the sixth game but Sinner served out the first set 6-1 at love in 33 minutes.
Sinner started the second set by winning six consecutive points and broke serve to love in the second game with a return winner down the line to build up a 2-0 lead. Medvedev held serve in the third game at 15.
Sinner faced a break point in the fourth game, but he saved it with two aces to open up a 3-1 lead. Sinner earned a double break in the fifth game when Medvedev sent his backhand wide. Sinner held serve to race out to a 5-1 lead. Medvedev held on his final serve.
Medvedev took a 0-30 lead when Sinner was serving for the match, but he sent his return wide and a faced a match point. Sinner served it out in 69 minutes to reach his third final of this season.
Sinner won 19 consecutive wins before losing to Carlos Alcaraz in the semifinal of Indian Wells.
Sinner will chase his second Masters 1000 title against the winner of the second semifinal between Grigor Dimitrov and Alexander Zverev.
“I felt great on court today. Usually the more you go on in a tournament, the more comfortable you feel and I am very happy about today’s performance. I think Daniel did not feel this well today. He made a lot of mistakes which he usually does not make, so I just took the chance. I was expecting a really tough match”, said Sinner.
