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Australian Open 2025: Jannik Sinner has qualified for a second consecutive Australian Open summit clash after defeating USA's Ben Shelton in straight sets. The match went for about two hours and 36 minutes, where Jannik defeated the American by 7-6 (7-2), 6-2, 6-2. Sinner will lock horns with Alexander Zverev during the summit clash on Sunday.

Sinner also scripted history as he had become the first Italian man to have qualified for consecutive summit clashes. After winning 20 continuous matches on hard courts, he has become the second youngest man during the Open Era to achieve this milestone.

Sinner, who is the 2024 Australian and US Open winner and also snatched the No. 1 position from Novak Djokovic, had become the youngest player to have qualified for consecutive men's singles summit clash of the Australian Open after Pete Sampras since 1994-1995.

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Sinner was seen struggling during the first set, where he had dropped his serve. But he bounced back and took the scoreline to 2-2 and then he was leading for the first time by 3-2. Shelton then received his second break at 5-5 and was just one service away from winning the set.

He did get two set points at 6-5 but lost both of them. At the same time, Sinner broke Shelton’s serve and forced a tie-breaker. And after that Sinner dominated. He was then leading by 5-0.

The second set became quite one-sided as Sinner continued his sublime form. He was leading by 4-0. Shelton did win two games but couldn’t win the second set.

During the third set, Sinner got his first break and led by 5-2. He played a forehand during the eighth game and thus won the second semi-final