Jannik Sinner has stunned Novak Djokovic to reach the Australian Open men’s final, his first Grand Slam final and also ended the 10-time champion’s career unbeaten streak in semifinals at Melbourne Park.

Sinner defeated Djokovic 6-1, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 in the semfinals of the Australian Open.

“It’s always nice to have this kind of player who you can learn from,” Sinner said in his on-court TV interview.

“I lost last year in the semifinals in Wimbledon and I learned a lot from that. The confidence from the end of last year has for sure kept the belief that I can play the best players in the world.”

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“He’s deservedly in the finals. He outplayed me completely,” Djokovic said after the match.

“Look, I was, in a way, shocked with my level — in a bad way. There was not much I was doing right in the first two sets.

“Yeah, I guess this is one of the worst Grand Slam matches I’ve ever played. At least that I remember.” He hadn’t lost a match at Melbourne Park since 2018 and was on a 33-match winning streak at the season’s first major. Every previous time he’d won a quarterfinal in Australia, Djokovic had gone on to win the hardcourt title.

Sinner is in red-hot form – he has won 19 of his last 20 matches and clinched two ATP titles and the Davis Cup since October – and he had also defeated Djokovic twice in three meetings over 12 days at the back end of last year.

Sinner beat Djokovic in a three-set epic in their group-stage match at the ATP season-ender, but Djokovic got his revenge in the final. When they met in the Davis Cup the week after, Sinner prevailed in extraordinary fashion, saving two match points and making Djokovic unusually buckle under pressure.

Sinner will play either third-seeded Daniil Medvedev or No. 6 Alexander Zverev for the championship on Sunday.