Sinner Domestica to Shelton and is cited with Zverev in the Australian Open final

A Sinner-Shelton is a duel of extremes, of ice and fire. The Italian is going control, discipline, the most robotic aspect of tennis in which there is no one better right now; The American fireworks are going to the American, now a whip with the left -hander, now a cut, now a second serve 216 kilometers per hour, now a rise to the network. They found themselves in many grays, because Sinner cost him to unbalance Shelton from the bottom, and because Shelton lacked things to overcome Sinner. From so much extreme in which they were placed and the other, the maximum equality throughout the first set.

The self -confidence unbalanced the balance in the eleventh game, spectacularly fresh the 22 -year -old boy who wears muscles and each time a better head concentrated inside the track, even if with the hand shows seemingly crazy ideas. Between the madness and strength he pressed the Sinner serve, which had achieved an earlier shift with three ‘Aces’ and that trembled at the speed, power and entertaining and disconcerting ideas of his rival in his next turn. A ‘break’ that evidenced the discomfort of Italian and measured Shelton’s growth, with the opportunity to finish the first set and, on top of, with his tremendous serve.

There were nerves and rainfall; Great points and mistakes in a hurry. The 22 years of its second great semifinal, after that of the US Open 2023. And there was temperance, reading those rival’s nerves, and control at each point by Sinner, 23 years, but with two Grand Slams already in his record. Two Set balls had Shelton; Two of breakage the Italian, who celebrated the ‘break’ unusual. Another sign that he was hard to impose his order before a disconcerting Shelton.

This little difference when facing the breakage options became huge in the ‘tie break’. Obviously the American is still growing, although a very good path arrives, with which he already has done Sinner: in control finally in that outcome in which he chained five points thanks to the success in his ideas and the errors of the rival, 18 Failures with your right in that first hour of play. Ice stopped combustion in 71 minutes.

From there, Sinner did not let the embers reproduce. Absolute control from the track bottom against a Shelton to which the spark was extinguished in those two set balls that he could not convert.

Four consecutive games, the hierarchy imposed with the right and from the bottom, managed the American with that network that the Italian displays with that body like a reed and with those legs and arms elongated to the infinity to cover any hole. Those that Shelton could no longer find, much slower in his guns and in his thoughts, with gestures of leg cramps after the 71 minutes of maximum explosion. A couple of games were allowed in that second set, more because The serve began to lazy in his hands.

Quite the opposite than synner, more made, more given to long battles, whether physical, but above all mental. A second impeccable set, in the most synner style. Organized in all its blows, more comfortable and safer to any volcanic irruption, less and less fiery, attended by the American in the exchange of the set.

The American still had sparks and good hand. More to demonstrate what is yet to come in the future, and to take advantage of a small physical downturn from Italian, than for some real comeback option. Sinner had already read, studied, interpreted, assumed and responded with a note to the rival disconcert and had everything prepared so that he could not even think of a miracle. The number 1 synener, impenetrable face from that first set of discomfort, massages in the thigh and tinn in -abable tennis from the bottom, no matter how much Shelton insisted on taking out some other trick to extend the ‘show’.

The opposite of what I wanted Sinner, more direct at all points to avoid more hours at stake, that there is still a match for the final objective. The San Cándido was in a hurry to rest, so he accelerated even more when he saw a small loophole in the serve of the rival, a double foul that allowed the number 1 to turn to the ball and get the necessary ‘break’ to sentence the clash .

From there, with slow steps, his discomfort, his suffering and his tiredness in the exchanges on the track, the most aggressive, harder, more direct, more lethal. Feet on the floor, unable to get up to get more impulse, but forcefulness with the arm, with which ‘drives’ on side to side to definitively stun Shelton, another double foul, and catch the final of the Australia Open with another breakage for 5-2.

Shelton said goodbye to Australia with a good ovation, with that last spark of 15-30, but that Sinner annulled it to whip. Very serious, the Italian gets his second consecutive final in Australia, pending his apparent muscle discomfort in his thighs, but with the best tennis he has deployed so far. On Sunday, against Alexander Zverev, a high -intensity game for how both are playing and for the confidence that the German has accumulated in recent times. In addition, the two of the world is light of demand, as its semifinal ended earlier than expected, with only one set for the retreat of Novak Djokovic.

This final is very open, with four victories for the German and two for the Italian, the first (octaves of Roland Garros 2020) and the last one (semifinal of Cincinnati 1,000 masters last year that resulted in a fingering 7-6 (9 ), 5-7 and 7-6 (4)).

“It has been a very hard first set. It was very tense for both of us, so winning it has given me peace The legs and these games can be very long, “said the Italian at the foot of the track, happy to have won in three sets even if they have been long, and wanting the final to arrive on Sunday.