By Richard Pagliaro Saturday, October 25, 2025
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Networks divide pleasure and pain in Vienna.
Jannik Sinner Continue to turn tennis courts into torture chambers Alex de Minaur.
Today, Sinner defeated the determined De Minaur 6-3, 6-4 and advanced to the Vienna final for the second time in three years.
Second-ranked Sinner made it to his 20th straight indoor hard-court victory and posted a 12-0 victory against De Minaur.
Sinner, the 2023 Vienna champion, extended his Bank One Open winning streak to nine matches.
Sinner continued his fierce final showdown, reaching the final for the eighth time in 10 games this season, becoming the first player to reach the final in two consecutive seasons since Novak Djokovic in 2015-2016.
The top-seeded Italian will face fourth-seeded compatriot Lorenzo Musetti or second-seeded German Alexander Zverev in tomorrow’s final in Vienna. Sinner remains unbeaten against fellow Italians.
The sharp Sinner scored 12 of the first 14 points to take a 3-0 lead just eight minutes into the semifinals.
You can’t blame the tenacious De Minaur for trying to show his aggression early – it’s also easy to flip the tactical switch if you’re hit 11 times in a row by a suffocating opponent – the challenge was that each of Sinner’s strikes was bigger, and the Australian’s flat shot failed early on the tape.
Still, De Minaur always brings the fight.
Twenty minutes into the match, the U.S. Open quarterfinalist launched a counterattack, and Sinner hit a backhand into the net for her first break point of the tournament. De Minaur once again tried hitting the ball with both hands, and his backhand found the net again, breaking serve for the first time at 1-4.
De Minaur, the ATP leader with the most hard-court wins this season (40), saved a break point at 2-4.
Sinner’s early advantage diminished slightly as he knocked a couple of balls off the tape and then set up De Minaur for a backhand pass, only to find it falling on the line. Sinner overcame that mistake and a time-out warning from strict referee Fergus Murphy to lead 5-2 after 36 minutes.
Sinner’s first ace brought him set point, and he ended the 44-minute first set with a smash. Sinner scored 9 of 18 points on De Minaur’s first serve and used those two service games to take the first set.
Sinner grabbed three break points in the fifth game of the second set with a cross-court forehand. De Minaur hit a double fault and Sinner broke serve at 3-2.
De Minaur showed his precision on the move and after six games he dug out some movement and broke for a forehand to equalize the match. But that didn’t faze Sinner, who hit hard shots down the middle to limit the Australian’s backhand errors and break serve for the second time in a row at 4-3.
Sinner finished with 87 minutes in the semifinals to earn his eighth win of the year.
