Defending Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner beats qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki in the fourth round to advance to the quarter-finals. The match is played on Centre Court and lasts about two hours and 24 minutes. Sinner wins in straight sets, 6-3, 7-6 (0), 6-3, progressing without relinquishing a set. Multiple reports describe the first meeting between the two players. Mochizuki, a qualifier, comes into the match with confidence after publicly making comments about Sinner before the encounter, but he is unable to prevent Sinner from taking control as the contest progresses. In the second set, Mochizuki holds his position through key moments, including saving a break point and producing attacking play at the net, though Sinner ultimately takes the set tie-break without dropping the decisive points. By the end of the match, Sinner continues his momentum from the early stages of his title defence and secures a safe passage to the next round.
Jannik Sinner defeats Shintaro Mochizuki to reach Wimbledon quarter-finals
Defending Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner beats qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki in the fourth round to advance to the quarter-finals. The match is played on Centre Court and lasts about two hours and 24...
- Jannik Sinner advances to the Wimbledon quarter-finals after beating qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki in the fourth round.
- Sinner wins in straight sets: 6-3, 7-6 (0), 6-3.
- The match is played on Centre Court and lasts about two hours and 24 minutes.
- It is the first meeting between Sinner and Mochizuki.
- Mochizuki made remarks about Sinner before the match, but Sinner wins decisively.
Defending Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner made qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki eat his words with a straight-sets victory on Centre Court to safely progress into the quarter-finals. Mochizuki had described the four-time grand-slam winner as a “celebrity” before this Sunday night meeting but promised to try and make life uncomfortable out of fear of being destroyed during a maiden fourth-round tie at a major.
2 hours agoWorld No 1 eases to 6-3, 7-6 (0), 6-3 victorySinner building momentum in title defenceBy the latter stages of the second set in his first-ever meeting with the best player in the world, Shintaro Mochizuki’s kitchen sink had already been tossed into the arena. The Japanese qualifier twice found himself down a break point while trailing 3-4, with Jannik Sinner prowling as he tried to snatch the decisive break.Mochizuki saved the first break point by throwing down a cunning serve and volley, ending it with a majestic high backhand volley winner, then he scuppered Sinner’s second chance with two more beautiful volleys in succession, effortlessly executing an outlandishly-angled lunging volley to kill the point. He somehow survived the breathless 12-minute service game to keep himself in contention. Continue reading...
2 hours agoSinner ended the fairytale journey of qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki after two hours and 24 minutes.
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