Sinner

With that, Sinner confirmed his own placement in the semi-finals, but also took Novak Djokovic there, who, due to the lost set earlier in the day against Hubert Hurkacz, was "depending" on the outcome of this match.
Rune, whose coach is Djokovic's former strategist Boris Becker, put up a fantastic resistance and staged a real drama in the "City of Fiat".

World no.1 kept that epithet despite not playing in the tournaments in Vienna and Basel in the previous weeks.
Djokovic remained at 11,045 points, 2,420 more than second-placed Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz (8,625), who also did not play in the aforementioned tournaments due to injury.