Tennis, US Open: who is Tommy Paul, Sinner’s opponent in the eighth finals

In the second match of the American evening session, at 3 am between Monday and Tuesday, Jannik Sinner will compete for a place in the quarterfinals at the US Open with the American Tommy Paul, no. 14 in the world. The 27-year-old from New Jersey is a player of great reliability and consistency of performance. For 3 years he has been in the top 50 and since the beginning of 2023 firmly in the top 20 with a maximum result of no. 12, reached last October.

The best result in a Slam is the semi-final at Melbourne 2023

Thanks to his great solidity from the baseline, he has managed to have an excellent performance on all surfaces. Semifinalist in May in Rome, this year he achieved the highest goal of his career at Queen’s where he won the first ATP 500 by beating Lorenzo Musetti in the final. His best results in the Slam tournaments were at the Australian Open 2023, where he reached the semifinals, and at the last Wimbledon where he stopped in the quarterfinals. At the US Open, however, he has never gone beyond the fourth round.

Sinner is ahead 2-1 in the previous matches

The previous meetings between the two see Sinner ahead 2-1. The South Tyrolean won in the first meeting, in the first round of the Madrid Masters 1000 2022, on clay, by 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 and in the last one: 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinal in Toronto, on hard court, in the Canadian Masters 1000 2023. In between there was Paul’s success in the round of 16 on grass in Eastbourne 2022 by 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.