As happened recently in Dubai, then in the second round,

Jannik Sinner

closed the way to

Roberto Bautista

, this time in a more profound trance, the Miami semifinals.

The Italian, an example of courage and character, won 5-7, 6-4 and 6-4, in two hours and 28 minutes, and will play this Sunday, against the winner of the match between

Andrey Rublev

and

Huber Hurkacz

, his first final of a tournament of this category.

After winning the ATP Finals for young players in 2019, taking the title in Sofia last year and winning the Melbourne 1 tournament earlier in the season, Sinner has not been a player on the circuit for a long time.

At 19, he has made good use of the Miami Masters 1000, marked by numerous absences, to emit forceful symptoms about his ambitious goals.

It is no longer just about a tennis player with a great future, but one can talk about his present.

Only three players under the age of 20 have reached the final of this tournament:

Agassi

, at 19,

made it his own

in 1990;

Nadal

lost it,

aged

18, in the famous five-set match against Federer in 2005;

and

Djokovic

took it

, with 19, in 2007.

Said

Alexander Bublik

, his victim in the

quarterfinals, which Sinner played like a robot.

And he commented on it in a complimentary tone, given the imperturbable character and the rigor of his automatisms on the track.

In his first semifinal of a tournament of this rank, the Italian did not mind giving up his service from the beginning and then missing two chances to win it back.

It was only the first of the tests that Bautista would subject him to.

He maintained stability and managed to equalize the set at three games.

He made it clear that he would not be able to respect an opponent 13 years older than him and with much more renown in the competition.

The man from Castellón was not short of self-esteem either.

He came from defeating

Daniil Medvedev

, world number two, after saving a

match point

in the previous game, against veteran

John Isner

.

A finalist in Doha and Montpellier, Bautista remains a difficult opponent on any surface, but even more so on hard court, where he has obtained his best results.

In an even first set, the Spanish broke again in the eleventh game and finished it off with his serve.

The Spaniard had more than half a game in hand with four

break

balls

in the seventh game of the second set and the score equaled three.

They were saved by Sinner, who is uncommonly fluent for his age in delicate situations.

Bautista had to quell the boy's attacks, who went with everything in each blow, oblivious to the wind that complicated the actions of both.

Not only did Sinner neutralize the threat, he rewarded his drive and took the set.

Physically more whole, he also returned from a break in the third game of the final set and broke blank in the last of the game.

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