{"id":27262,"date":"2025-11-13T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27262"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:04:01","slug":"sinner-cruises-past-zverev-and-into-last-four-of-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27262","title":{"rendered":"Sinner cruises past Zverev and into last four of ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jannik Sinner reached the last four of the ATP Finals on Wednesday after beating Alexander Zverev 6-4, 6-3 to qualify from the Bjorn Borg group with a match to spare.<\/p>\n

World number one Sinner is bidding to retain his title at the prestigious end-of-season tournament and he cruised into the semi-finals in front of a delighted crowd in Turin.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old was not at his best and struggled with a hand problem at the start of the match but still had more than enough to see off Zverev for the fifth straight time.<\/p>\n

Zverev hasn’t beaten Sinner since the 2023 US Open, being destroyed by the Italian in the semi-finals of the recent Paris Masters, and again the German couldn’t handle the four-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n

Sinner was brutal on his serve, rattling in 12 aces, and once he took the first set with his third break point of game 10 he never looked back.<\/p>\n

“If we watch the match today, there were one or two points, that’s why I won the first set,” Sinner told reporters.<\/p>\n

“Couple of points, that’s why I won the second set. If those points go the other way, maybe it’s the same score in the opposite way. You never know.”<\/p>\n

Zverev needed to win in straight sets to book his place in the semis but will now have to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime, a 4-6, 7-6 (9\/7), 7-5 winner over Ben Shelton, in his final group match on Friday in order to progress.<\/p>\n

But he cut an irritated figure on court, frustrated by his inability to capitalise on any of his seven break points, a series of unforced forehand errors and at one point by a flashing advertising sign.<\/p>\n

“Listen, I hope to see him again — it’s as simple as that — this week,” Zverev said.<\/p>\n

“He’s not unplayable. I had many opportunities. He had one, he used the chance. This is why he’s number one in the world, you know? He uses the chances that he gets.”<\/p>\n

Sinner meanwhile will take on Shelton aiming to top the group and set up a clash with whoever finishes second in the Jimmy Connors Group which is currently led by his great rival Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

Aggressive Auger-Aliassime\u00a0<\/p>\n

Canada’s Auger-Aliassime won just his second ever match at the season-ending tournament with a battling display, coming back from a poor start to boost his hopes of reaching the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

“I think I played great, very aggressive, hitting very good balls on backhand and forehand, so I went for it and in the end it paid off,” said Auger-Aliassime to Sky Sport.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime’s imposing service game, which included nine aces, eventually broke down Shelton whose erratic play cost him a debut win at the Finals.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old showed no signs of having the calf problem which affected his opening loss to Sinner, and he will face Zverev on Friday with a chance of making the knockout stage.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s a bit of a learning curve everywhere you go. Different tournament, different atmosphere, different format that I never played in, obviously playing the best players in the world,” Shelton told reporters.<\/p>\n

Shelton looked to be in control when he won the first set at the first opportunity, breaking Auger-Aliassime’s serve for the second time just after having his initial break cancelled out.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime won a tight second set which went with serve until the tie-break, when Shelton had to save three set points before eventually conceding the match lead with a double-fault.<\/p>\n

And he won the match at the third time of asking at the end of another bruising set, breaking Shelton and getting a win on the board.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner reached the last four of the ATP Finals on Wednesday after beating Alexander Zverev 6-4, 6-3 to qualify from the Bjorn Borg group with a match to spare. World number one Sinner is bidding to retain his title at the prestigious end-of-season tournament and he cruised into the semi-finals in front of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}