{"id":25061,"date":"2026-01-26T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/australian-open-2026-rejuvenated-jannik-sinner-sails-into-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:34:26","slug":"australian-open-2026-rejuvenated-jannik-sinner-sails-into-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/australian-open-2026-rejuvenated-jannik-sinner-sails-into-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Rejuvenated Jannik Sinner sails into quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Earlier on Monday, Lorenzo Musetti produced a dominant display to beat Taylor Fritz in straight sets and set up a quarter-final against 10-time winner Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n

After coming through a gruelling five-set battle against Tomas Machac two days earlier, Musetti cruised to a 6-2 7-5 6-4 win over the American ninth seed.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Italian, ranked fifth in the world, has now reached the quarter-finals at all four Grand Slam tournaments and said he will push Djokovic to his “maximum”.<\/p>\n

The 24-time Grand Slam champion advanced to the last eight after Jakub Mensik withdrew<\/a> before their fourth-round match with an abdominal injury.<\/p>\n

“Novak, we’ve played many, many times and every time it’s a lesson,” said Musetti, who has won only one of his 10 meetings with the Serb.<\/p>\n

“He didn’t have to play today, so I’m pretty sure he won’t be tired. Hopefully the rhythm I have right now with the great match today will bring me luck for the next one.<\/p>\n

“I feel ready to try to push him to the maximum.”<\/p>\n

Djokovic, 38, will have had three days off to rest and recover by the time he faces Musetti on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Earlier on Monday, Lorenzo Musetti produced a dominant display to beat Taylor Fritz in straight sets and set up a quarter-final against 10-time winner Novak Djokovic. After coming through a gruelling five-set battle against Tomas Machac two days earlier, Musetti cruised to a 6-2 7-5 6-4 win over the American ninth seed. The 23-year-old Italian, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25063,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061\/revisions\/25063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}