Olympic bronze medalist and former world number three Nadezhda Petrova told that the Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev who lost to the Italian Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, once again found himself in the Grand Slam tournament against an athlete who is one of the five best players in the world.
Rublev, who received the fifth seed, lost to Sinner (4) in the quarterfinals with a score of 4:6, 6:7 (5:7), 3:6. The meeting lasted 2 hours 39 minutes.
— Sinner is now in the top five, and he is rightly there, especially by going through this Grand Slam with complete confidence, without losing a single set. I’m impressed with his game, how he carries himself, how he plays. Sinner played this match very competently, moved around the field perfectly, shot sharp balls into the corners perfectly, he had an excellent response to Andrei’s powerful shots, which is why he did not could not break through.
Andrey, of course, had to play at a risky level, where we witnessed his mistakes. Of course, he could have won in the second set, where he led with a score of 5:1 in the tiebreaker and, what’s more, he also served. However, Sinner was very calm, so he played the following rallies calmly and coolly, and thus changed the course of this tiebreak and won the second set.
If Andrey had managed to catch up with this set and win it, perhaps the situation would have been different, Sinner might have lost courage a little, then Andrey could have caught up for another set, in which case everything would have been a was decided in the fifth set, and it would have been a very tense moment. Here Sinner already saw the finish line and was heading towards it. The Italian is playing very well now – clean and powerful tennis, he serves and receives well, he has incredible acceleration in his stroke, precisely when he is kicked out of the court in the turns.
It’s a shame that Andrei cannot cross this line (quarterfinals of the Grand Slam tournament – approx. “”). In his defense, every time he reaches the quarterfinals, he comes up against one of the top five players. And these are of course the most experienced players who have a lot in their tennis arsenal.
Can Andrey consider this tournament an asset? I really liked the way he plays now, the way he fights, the way he deals with his emotions. Andrey started the season well, won the title, reached the quarterfinals, so the main thing for him now is to maintain this stability. Thanks to this, he will increase his confidence, and in the future, at one of the Grand Slam tournaments, he will definitely be lucky and go even further. Therefore, my opinion: Andrey is a great guy, he gave almost everything in this tournament,” Petrova 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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