Jannik Sinner has been classified for the quarterfinals of Wimbledon for the withdrawal of Grigor Dimitrov. The Bulgarian took the first two sets (6-3 and 7-5) but was injured in the third, with 2-2 on the scoreboard and when the world number one was obliged to trace. In this way, the Italian accesses the next round, to the quarterfinals, where he will face Ben Shelton.
The world number one managed to move forward in the London great when the panorama was not flattering. After giving up the first two sleeves and with some kind of discomfort in the elbow, he had to go back to a grieving rival, but he was injured at the muscle level in the pectoral after making a serve already started the third partial and had to be removed between tears.
And until that moment, the talented Bulgarian player was touching the surprise in the central, where he was deploying a great tennis to develop that of San Cándido, always in tow on the scoreboard already from the beginning and with few answers to the good level at the service of his rival.
In fact, Sinner He lost his first service and could no longer recover that disadvantage before a Dimitrov that only gave some option when it served with seconds and that only granted a breakage ball throughout the first partial.
The second did not vary too much because the champion of the Australia Open did not hold his first serve and went back to the countercurrent, although this time he managed to match just when the nineteenth-standing head served to close the partial with 5-4. Sinner roared with that breakbut ephemeral because Dimitrov broke down again and no longer forgave to track a ticket to the room that ended the pain with 2-2 in the third set.
Now, the number one in the world will look for the semifinals of the third 'Grand Slam' of the season against the American Ben Shelton, tenth favorite and that for the first time is among the eight best in Wimbledon after tracing the Italian Lorenzo Sonego (3-6, 6-1, 7-6, 7-5).
The other quarter of that part of the painting will measure the seven -time champion, the Serbian Novak Djokovic, and one of the surprises of this edition, the Italian Flavio Cobolli. The Belgrade knew how to solve his first great exam in the tournament against a Alex de Miñaur who could not give continuity to his great starting start.
The Australian tennis player, eleventh head of the series, began overwhelming and signed a demolitioner 6-1 that fueled the possibility of surprise, but then 'Nole' knew how to survive with his experience to continue with the candidacy for a twenty-fifth title of 'Grand Slam'.
Djokovic took a second set where his rival was able to match two breaks and where he gave up to ten 'break' balls, threw veteranía to take the second in the decisive compases and then he was able to stop the reaction of De Miñaur, who came to go 4-1 up in the partial room before losing five games in a row to leave free way so that the serb For the first time in rooms in a 'Grand Slam' after ending the dream of veteran Croatian Marin Cilic (6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 7-6).
