{"id":261792,"date":"2026-01-28T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/261792\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:15:09","slug":"sinner-saunters-past-shelton-to-third-straight-ao-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/261792\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner saunters past Shelton to third straight AO semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/italy\/jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> is into his third successive Australian Open semifinal after beating American Ben Shelton 6-3 6-4 6-4 on Wednesday night to extend his Melbourne Park win streak to 19 matches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/results#!All\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MORE: All the scores from Day 11 at AO 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Italian two-time defending champion made it nine victories in a row \u2013 and 22 sets in succession \u2013 against the explosive lefty to set up a Friday semifinal against <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/articles\/news\/djokovic-through-final-four-after-musetti-retires-ao-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic, who advanced after Lorenzo Musetti was forced to retire with injury<\/a> earlier on Wednesday after the Italian had won the opening two sets.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton\u2019s serve wasn\u2019t as effective as he\u2019d hoped, while Sinner returned brilliantly during the opening two sets. When the pair found themselves engaged in baseline points, more often than not it was the Italian who was winning them.<\/p>\n<p>It was an evening that wasn\u2019t without its intrigue, however. Despite the one-sided scoreline, four-time Grand Slam champion Sinner looked a little shaky physically from the very end of the second set.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old appeared lacking in energy for a brief period, and his tennis suffered a slight drop in quality and intensity before he broke late in the third to seal another straight-sets success.<\/p>\n<p>The result puts Sinner into a sixth successive major semifinal and keeps him on track to become the fourth player in history to win three consecutive Australian Open men\u2019s singles titles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/draws#!mens-singles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MORE: AO 2026 men&#8217;s singles draw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery happy with today\u2019s performance,\u201d was Sinner\u2019s appraisal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely one of the toughest challenges to return his serve, also the second serve comes with a lot of spin and the ball is bouncy here. It helps a little bit playing in the evening \u2013 it\u2019s a bit less bouncy \u2013 but still it\u2019s very, very difficult. But I felt like I returned great today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner is into his third successive Australian Open semifinal after beating American Ben Shelton 6-3 6-4 6-4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-261792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}