The Italian Davis Cup team joined the series this Saturday. The last 8 championships, The match played in Malaga defeated Serbia 2-1 with two wins from Jannik Sinner, survived against Novak Djokovic in singles (6-2, 2-6 and 7-5) and then completed the comeback with Lorenzo Sonego . Doubles against Djokovic and Miomir Kecmanovic (6-3 and 6-4).

Sinner He repeated his heroic role against the Netherlands His country was in the quarter-finals as they started this ‘half’ with defeat again. Kecmanovic defeated Lorenzo Musetti (7-6-7, 6-2 and 6-1), who went from little to more in the first set but ran out of fuel in the tiebreaks (7-9). ).

His opponent then enjoyed the field at the José María Martín Carpena Sports Palace. He broke Musetti’s four consecutive serves, breaking the last two serves of the second set and another two at the start of the next, and clinched the victory after two hours and 22 minutes.

It was later reprinted The decisive duel in the last ATP Finals Djokovic He reigned in Turin. Sinner, who took revenge for losing in front of his home crowd last Sunday, was very solid with his ‘urge’ in the opening set at Carpena. He did not encounter a single ball on his serve and also took little time to worry his opponent.

Although Djokovic resolved his first serve order well, the San Cándido native broke him twice in a row (2-1, 4-1) and wrapped up the first set in just over half an hour. But, ‘Nole’ completely changed both his own inertia and the inertia of the match at the beginning of the second set. Deeper and more determined, he broke Sinner’s serve in the fourth game and immediately reached a scoreless score (1-4) and accelerated to take the lead in the 42nd minute.

He did it in a remarkable eighth game, securing the third break option and warning of what was to come. After winning the opening game of the third set blankly, Coming from Belgrade endangered the Sinner’s service just below. ‘Palazos’ on both sides of the court are raised by tennis players alike.

Three match balls were recovered

However, in this exchange of quality, The Italian showed signs of wear and touched the fatal stumbling block. With the score at 2-3 in Djokovic’s favour, a disturbing ‘tie’ emerged; Then at 3-4, Sinner saved a through ball; and at 4-5 the ATP No. 1 team had three match points. That’s when the Sinner performed the miracle and left his opponent high and dry.

With great confidence, he improved the score from 0-40, put the score at 5-5 and made a break in the next game that Djokovic could not respond to again. In the twelfth game of the third round, after more than two and a half hours, The player from San Candido sealed the victory and with that the ‘half’ was doomed with a heart-stopping double.

However, since Sinner and Sonego had done their homework from the beginning, very little tachycardia was seen in the Carpena field. A break in the sixth game took them into the first set, and despite Sonego’s nerves on serve, they took a well-managed lead in the next act.

The kick of the break finally smiled on the ‘azzurri’ who won the doubles in just over an hour and a half and They meet the Australian team for the grand final this Sunday. Malaga will crown Djokovic the champion of the 2023 Davis Cup, who will remain trophyless despite being the Serbian team’s beacon in this Final 8.