Tennis
Olkhovsky found it difficult to name the favorite in the match between Rublev and Sinner at the Australian Open
Andrey Rublev / Photo: © Andy Cheung / Contributor / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru
Two-time mixed doubles Grand Slam winner Andrei Olkhovsky admitted that he cannot name a favorite in the upcoming meeting between Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev and Jannik Sinner from Italy at the Australian Open.
On Sunday, Rublev beat Australian Alex De Minaur with a score of 6:4, 6:7 (5:7), 6:7 (4:7), 6:3, 6:0 in the 1/8 finals of the Australian Open. The meeting lasted 4 hours 15 minutes. On Tuesday, the Russian will fight with the fourth racket of the world, Sinner, to reach the semifinals.
— Both opponents are in very good shape now. Rublev played a phenomenal match against De Minaur. And Sinner played excellently at the end of the past, and continues in the same spirit at the beginning of the current one. He is one of the strongest tennis players in the world today.
I believe that this pair could have met at a later stage if it were not for the grid. “I can’t give preference to any of them in the upcoming match,” Vprognoze.ru quotes Olkhovsky as saying.
Previously, Rublev and Sinner met six times in official tournaments: the Russian won two victories, the Italian four.
Source: Sportbox
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