New Delhi, July 7 -- Jannik Sinner booked a place in the semifinals of the Wimbledon 2026 after he tamed big-serving German warrior Jan-Lennard Struff 7-5, 7-6(4), 6-3 on Tuesday. In his 47th Grand Slam appearance, Struff became the oldest man in the professional era to reach his first major quarterfinal, at the age of 36. Sinner will face either Novak Djokovic or Felix Auger-Aliassime in semis.

Any hopes the world number 74 might have harboured of extending that run were snuffed out in brutal fashion by the Italian top seed. Struff had served 100 thunderbolt aces to reach the quarterfinals and fired down 12 more missiles but all that firepower did little to throw Sinner off his stride.

A break for a 6-5 lead in the first set was enough...