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Sinner Soars to Victory: Defeats Safiullin and Advances to Wimbledon Semi-Finals

Jannik Sinner defeated Roman Safiullin to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon for the first time. The Italian eighth seed won the match with a score of 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. Sinner will now face either Novak Djokovic or Andrey Rublev for a place in the final. This is a significant achievement for Sinner in his career, as it marks his first Grand Slam semi-final appearance.

After today’s victory, Sinner became the tenth Italian ever to reach a semifinal in a Grand Slam event, the third as mentioned in the history of Wimbledon. The Azzurri semifinalists in the Majors were, in alphabetical order, Corrado Barazzutti, Matteo Berrettini, Marco Cecchinato, Uberto De Morpurgo, Giorgio De Stefani, Beppe Merlo, Adriano Panatta, Nicola Pietrangeli and Orlando Sirola, before Sinner, who is also the most young to have ever come this far in a Grand Slam event.

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