Wimbledon 2022: Jannik Sinner holds on to sink Carlos Alcaraz to make quarter-finals at SW19

Jannik Sinner produced a performance of maturity to beat Carlos Alcaraz 6-1 6-4 6(8)-7 6-3 to progress to the quarter-finals of Wimbledon where he will face either Novak Djokovic or Tim van Rijthoven. Alcaraz came into the match with a minor psychological advantage, holding a 1-0 lead in the pair's head-to-head, having won their previous encounter at last year's Paris Masters. Ad/> Both players are relative rookies on the surface: it was Alcaraz’s sixth tour-level match on grass, and Sinner's eighth.

However, the Italian's excellent return game, coupled with his impressive backcourt coverage, unsettled and nullified Alcaraz for large swathes of the contest. WimbledonWimbledon order of play, Day 7 — When are Djokovic, Alcaraz, Watson and Norrie playing?21 HOURS AGO Alcaraz had applied some early pressure, with the Italian forced to defend the first game — and his serve — from 0-30, but it was serene progress from there, taking two of the three break points he fashioned to seal a dominant first set. The first came in the fourth game of the set, after an errant forehand afforded the world No.

13 a break opportunity, and when Alcaraz's usually reliable drop shot netted, Sinner had the ascendancy. He backed it up in the sixth game when a long backhand and a double fault from his opponent offered up two break points. The Italian would take the second, putting an exclamation mark on a dominant first set, sealing it with a thunderous ace to take a one-set lead in just 31 minutes.

The No. 10 seed took the first game of the second set to go a set and a break up after more uncharacteristic errors from Alcaraz that offered up two further break points. And when the Spaniard was unable to dig out a testing return at his feet, the