Jannik Sinner delivered a flawless serving efficiency on Saturday to defeat house wild card Tallon Griekspoor and attain the championship match on the ABN AMRO Open in Rotterdam.

The Italian didn’t face a break level in his 7-5, 7-6(5) semi-final victory towards the World No. 61 on the indoor ATP 500 occasion. Although Griekspoor competed fiercely in a richly entertaining encounter full of clear baseline hitting and a few deft volleying, Sinner’s capacity to take his possibilities in the end proved decisive.

The World No. 14, who has solely been damaged thrice throughout his 4 matches this week on the Rotterdam Ahoy, transformed the one break level of the match within the twelfth recreation to assert the opening set after which held his nerve to assert a high-quality second-set tie-break. It was a seventh tour-level victory in a row for Sinner, who final week in Montpellier claimed his seventh ATP Tour title.

For the 21-year-old to increase his profitable streak to eight matches, he should beat Daniil Medvedev for the primary time in Sunday’s championship match within the Netherlands. The sixth-seeded Medvedev, who leads Sinner 4-0 within the pair’s ATP Head2Head sequence, earlier eased previous Grigor Dimitrov 6-1, 6-2 to achieve his twenty eighth tour-level closing.

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