Jannik Sinner has reached the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon men’s singles tournament. He has beaten players such as Ben Shelton and Matteo Berrettini so far in the tournament. His quarter-final opponent Daniil Medvedev is 5th in the PIF ATP Rankings and has had a similar journey to Sinner, even though his round of 16 victory against 10th seed Grigor Dimitrov was after the latter suffered a groin injury and retired from their match.
Background
Sinner won the Next Gen ATP Finals and challengers in Bergamo, Lexington and Ortisei in 2019. He was the Sofia Open champion the following year and also made the French Open quarter-finals despite having not played in the tournament before 2020, both as a junior and professionally.
Sinner won five events (both singles and doubles tournaments) in 2021. He competed in the ATP Finals and was ranked in the top 10 at the end of the season.
Sinner reached the Wimbledon semi-finals last summer and was a French Open semi-finalist this year. He won the Australian Open in January.
Wimbeldon 2024 (tournament so far)
Sinner defeated Yannick Hanfmann in the Wimbledon first round. He then beat Matteo Berrettini, Miomir Kecmanović and Ben Shelton. Sinner also won against Berrettini at the Canadian Open last August. Kecmanović was number 1 in the boys ITF World Tennis Tour junior rankings on 21 November 2016, whilst Shelton was the NCAA Division I Tennis Championships men’s singles winner in 2022.
Quarter-final match
Sinner will play against Daniil Medvedev in the Wimbledon quarter-finals. He has beaten him five times in the past year, including at the ATP Finals last November. He won against Medvedev in Beijing and Vienna and in the Australian Open final. Sinner also beat Medvedev in the Miami Open semi-finals in March.
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