After winning their last three duels on the ATP circuit, Jannik Sinner made the pass of four this Saturday! The Italian, seeded n°6, qualified for the round of 16 of the US Open, winning three sets to one (6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 ) against the Swiss Stan Wawrinka, in New York.
“I’m happy to have won today. We didn’t necessarily play our best tennis but it was very important to leave the court with the victory. I hope that I will be able to increase in strength over the course of the tournament, that is my objective.” said Jannik Sinner after his victory.
This is the third time this season that the sixth player in the world has reached this stage of the Grand Slam competition, and also the third time at the US Open after 2021 and 2022. Last year, he lost in quarter-final against Carlos Alcaraz.
Sinner two wins from the Top 4
If he reaches the semi-finals of the New York tournament, the Italian player would be guaranteed to enter the World Top 4 at the end of the US Open.
Sinner, 6th in the world at the ATP, will face the winner of the upcoming match between Germany’s Alexander Zverev, seeded No. 12, and Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov, seeded No. 19 in the round of 16 of the tournament. New Yorker.
The 22-year-old Italian player had beaten the German Yannick Hanfmann without being worried by the score (6-3, 6-1, 6-1), and had eliminated Lorenzo Sonego (6-4, 6-2, 6-4) , before this duel on Saturday against Wawrinka, 49th player in the world at ATP.
The 38-year-old Swiss had won against the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (7-6 [5]6-2, 6-4), and against the Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry, seeded n°30 (7-6 [6]6-7 [7]6-3, 6-2).
The other meetings of the third round at the US Open (Grand Slam, hard, 44,700,000 USD, results are displayed from newest to oldest):
- Daniil Medvedev – Sebastian Baez: scheduled for Sunday
- Alexander Zverev – Grigor Dimitrov: scheduled for Saturday
- Nicolas Jarry – Alex De Minaur: scheduled for Saturday
- Andrey Rublev (N.8) – Arthur Rinderknech: 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, 7-5
- Matteo Arnaldi – Cameron Norrie (N.16) : 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
- Carlos Alcaraz (N.1) – Daniel Evans (N.26) : 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
- Jack Draper – Michael Mmoh (WC) : 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
- Novak Djokovic (N.2) – Laslo Djere (N.32) : 4-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3
- Borna Gojo (Q) – 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
- Taylor Fritz (N.9) – Jakub Mensik (Q) : 6-1, 6-2, 6-0
- Dominic Stricker (Q) – Benjamin Bonzi (WC) : 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 [4]3-6, 6-2
- Rinky Hijikata (WC) – Zhizhen Zhang: 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
- Frances Tiafoe (N.10) – Adrian Mannarino (N.22) : 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 [6]
- Ben Shelton – Aslan Karatsev : 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
- Tommy Paul (N.14) – Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (N.21) : 6-1, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3
2023-09-02 22:42:58
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