Ben Shelton21 years old and 14th in the ranking, is very good and even more so than he will be, but he is too green to beat the elite of the racket. Jannik Sinnerhis rival this Sunday in the round of 16 at Wimbledon, passed him with a score of 6-2, 6-4 y 7-6(9). It all ended in sudden death in the third set with a double fault from the American.
Sinner served as world number one and is just one win away from equaling his best result in the big British, which were the semifinals of the 2023 edition.
There are now 42 victories for the San C�ndido tennis player this year, the most on the circuit. He only collects three defeats and two of them were with Carlos Alcaraz in the semifinals of Indian Wells and Roland Garros.
Condemned to face
They could meet again for the third time, now in the penultimate round of Wimbledon. The border is marked by one more triumph for both. Sinner is erasing the history books of transalpine tennis because he is breaking all the records at just 22 years old.
No Italian had reached the quarterfinals of the third major three times. Jannik has eight appearances among the eight best in the four major racket stages.
The new champion of the Australian Open will meet on Tuesday the winner of the match between Daniil Medvedev and Grigor Dimitrov.
