Jannik Sinner painfully overcomes the German Jan Lennard Struff and advances to the semi-finals of the ATP 500 tournament in Halle .
Third victory in three sets for the South Tyrolean on German grass, perhaps the most complicated: today he won 6-2, 6-7, 7-6 in 2 hours and 30 minutes of play.
After a dominated first set, the German - a great hitter - entered the match. He canceled 16 of the 18 break points conceded and found an excellent reaction.
Jannilk always remained lucid. The tiebreak in the second was bad (lost 7-1) , but the Italian almost never suffered on serve and found the right concentration in the decisive tiebreak, won 7-3 . On Saturday in the semifinals Sinner challenges the winner of the match between Zhang and Eubanks .
In terms of ranking, the blue is ahead of Alcaraz , who after the defeat at the hands of Draper at Queen's loses almost 500 points resulting from last year's victory and slips into third position behind Novak Djokovic.
(Unioneonline/L)