Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev was not fresh enough in the Australian Open quarter-final against the Italian Jannik sinner former world number nine racket Andrei Chesnokov told .
Rublev, who received the fifth seed, lost to Sinner in the quarterfinals with a score of 4:6, 6:7 (5:7), 3:6. The meeting lasted 2 hours 39 minutes.
– It seems to me that the last match with De Minaur physically exhausted Andrey. Of course, there was a chance today in the second set, when he led 5:1 in the tiebreak, but Sinner at some point simply stopped making mistakes and dragged Rublev into long trades. At the end of these long rallies, the Russian simply couldn’t take it anymore. Let’s even say that Andrei won the second game, but what will happen next? I didn’t see that Rublev would be willing to play three more sets.
There wasn’t that freshness to play against Sinner. The Italian is playing very well now. And in the third set there was an exhibition match where Rublev served with the score 2:3. Sinner again drove him in prolonged rallies – Andrey “just didn’t have enough gas.”
But we also have to look at the situation in a positive way. Rublev has had an excellent start to the season. First I won the tournament, then I reached the quarter-finals here. I think it’s a good result,” Chesnokov told .
The Russian has never reached the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament, and for Rublev, 26, it was his 10th quarter-final defeat. Sinner will compete with Serbian Novak Djokovic to reach the Australian Open final.
Source : MatchTV
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