Australian Open champ Sinner advances to third Miami semi in four years in 6-4, 6-2 win over Machac

reached the finals of this event in 2021 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Australian and 2023, losing both times.

Open champion Jannik Sinner won his “It was a really tough match, but I was 20th match of 2024 to reach the Miami happy about the performance,” Sinner Open semifinals for the third time in the said.

Sinner, 22, said Machac served well past four years with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over

early on and his aggressiveness kept Tomas Machac on Wednesday. things close for a while. But Sinner continued

Sinner, seeded second, will take on his fabulous run, breaking his either No. 3 seed Daniil Medvedev or No. opponent’s serve four times, to move on 22 seed Nicolas Jarry, who play later. to the next round.

Sinner reached his fourth final four of “I always say when it all feels good on the season and moved to 20-1 overall. He *the court, it’s easy to play tennis,” he said. “But it has to start off in a practice session when you don’t feel well, but you still have to practice and this can make the difference.

“At the moment, I feel really good on the court,” he continued.

On the women’s side, Danielle Collins defeated No. 23 seed Caroline Garcia 6-3, 6-2 to reach the Miami semifinals for the first time since she did it as a qualifier six years ago.

Garcia had come off consecutive wins over Grand Slam champions Naomi

Osaki and Coco Gauff. But the run fizzled out against Collins, who has won 10 of 11 sets in this tournament and needed just 80 minutes to advance.

Collins moved to 4-0 in her career against Garcia, who never had a break point in the match. Collins downplayed the dominant showing.

“Against someone like Caro, it forces me to be more concentrated, because I know I don’t want to give her an inch,” Collins said.