MADRID (AP) \u2014 Top-ranked Jannik Sinner extended his winning streak to 22 matches by beating Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-4 to reach the final of the Madrid Open on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Italian’s 350th career victory makes him the first man born in the 2000s to reach that milestone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very happy about the general performance today. I\u2019m trying to play the best possible tennis. Today was a very good day in the office,\u201d Sinner said in an on-court interview after not facing a break point in the semifinal.<\/p>\n
Sinner, trying to become the first man to win five consecutive Masters 1000 tournaments, will face third-ranked Alexander Zverev or Belgium\u2019s Alexander Blockx in Sunday’s final.<\/p>\n
Sinner also joined an elite list with Friday’s win: He’s the fourth and youngest man to reach the final at all nine Masters 1000 events, after Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n
The world No. 1 broke Fils\u2019 serve twice in the first set and came under pressure at 30-30 in the sixth game of the second set before holding serve with back-to-back aces to get to 3-3.<\/p>\n
Sinner got the key break with a backhand winner down the line for a 5-4 lead before serving out the match against the Frenchman.<\/p>\n
Sinner’s winning run has included titles in Indian Wells, Miami and Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n
In the women’s event, Mirra Andreeva will face Marta Kostyuk in Saturday’s final.<\/p>\n
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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID (AP) \u2014 Top-ranked Jannik Sinner extended his winning streak to 22 matches by beating Arthur Fils 6-2,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1528,1527,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-15326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-ap-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-madrid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}