Italian seventh seed Matteo
Berrettini got into the semi-finals of the Australian Open
Tuesday by beating France's 15th seed Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-4,
3-6, 3-6, 6-2 and will meet no 5 seed and Spain great Rafa Nadal
who is gunning for a record 21st Grand Slam victory.
Berrettini broke Monfils twice in the fifth after being pegged
back after winning the first two sets.
He became the first Italian to get into the Australian Open
semis.
Another Italian, Jannik Sinner, will play Greece's Stefanos
Tsitsipas in another quarterfinal Wednesday.
World number 2 Daniil Medvedev of Russia is the tournament
favourite after world no 1 Novak Djokovic was controversially
banned from taking part over his failure to get jabbed for
COVID-19.
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