Australian Open, Tsitsipas will be Sinner’s opponent in the quarterfinals: Fritz ko in 5 set

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A game with a thousand faces the one played at the end of the evening session on the Rod Laver Arena. The background canvas? Fritz, after eliminating Tiafoe and Bautista Agut, has clear ideas and dominates with the serve, Tsitsipas chases, struggling, but giving the impression of never giving up definitively, despite a lot of nervousness (already from the first games he is punished with a time violation ) and the pressure of the father (also pinched for coaching). After 4 mirror sets, decided by a single break (the third the most fought with even 9 break points canceled by the Greek), the challenge returns to follow the rails of the ranking and in the fifth, the importance of the stage and the stakes influence Fritz’s game that after game on game brought home with the service, hesitates on the most beautiful. Tsitsipas smells the blood, puts the arrow on 5-4 and doesn’t tremble on the match point. With Sinner it will be the 4th direct confrontation, the first on the fast: in Rome in 2019 Stefanos won, in 2020 Jannik. In the most recent precedent, that of last April in Barcelona, ​​the Greek won 6-3 6-3. Wednesday will be the first Grand Slam match between the two. Prepare the popcorn.