No 1 seed eases past American player 6-3 6-4 6-4
Sinner will now meet fortunate winner Djokovic
Jannik Sinner will take on Novak Djokovic in another grand slam semi-final after a straight-sets win over Ben Shelton at the Australian Open.
Sinner’s dramas of the third round, when he was in serious trouble in the heat against Eliot Spizzirri, now seem a distant memory, with the two-time defending champion brushing aside big-serving Shelton 6-3 6-4 6-4.
It was his third win against the American in the last five slams, and now, for the third time in the last four majors, he finds Djokovic waiting in the semi-finals after the Serbian benefited from Lorenzo Musetti’s untimely injury when up two sets to love.
