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fighting for 3 hours! world no. 1 sinner won 10 consecutive victories despite wrist injury, making history by reaching the us open final for the first time

2024-09-07

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in the first semi-final of the us open men's singles that ended in the early morning of september 7th, beijing time, world no. 1 sinner fought for three hours and swept the 25th seed of the tournament, british player draper, in three straight sets, reaching the us open men's singles final for the first time in his career. the scores of the three sets were 7-5, 7-6 and 6-2.

the two had played against each other once before, when draper defeated sinner 2-0 at the 2021 queen's cup. but three years later, sinner, who has transformed into the world's no. 1, is no longer the same as before. in the first set, sinner broke first in the 7th game. although draper quickly broke back in the 8th game, sinner broke again in the crucial 11th game, and then he won the serve to win the set, and finally won the first set 7-5.

in the second set, the two sides played very fiercely. after failing to break the serve in the first 12 games, the match had to go into a tie-break. in the tie-break, sinner took a strong lead of 4-0 at the start, and eventually won the tie-break 7-3 to win the second set.

in the third set, sinner broke twice in a row after the score was tied at 2-2 and won four games in a row. in the end, he won the third set 6-2, thus sweeping his opponent in three straight sets.

the two sides fought for 3 hours in this game. sinner fell and injured his wrist during the game. draper vomited and sweated due to the scorching heat. both players on both sides had to receive treatment during the medical timeout. this game was brutal.

sinner has won 10 straight matches since the cincinnati masters. this season, he leads the men's tennis with 34 hard court wins. sinner also became the first italian player in history to reach the us open men's singles final. this is also sinner's second time to reach the grand slam singles final after winning the australian open at the beginning of the year. he will wait for the winner between the two american players tiafoe and fritz to compete for the final qualification.