demolition of Australia\u2019s Alexei Popyrin on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Italian world number one needed just two hours and one minute to dispatch Popyrin 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n
Sinner — who only dropped four games in his first round win over Vit Kopriva on Tuesday — was similarly brisk against Popyrin.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old broke Popyrin five times as he moved through the gears against his opponent, ranked 36th in the world.<\/p>\n
Sinner faces Canadian 27th seed Denis Shapovalov in the third round on Saturday. \u201cObviously I try to play the best tennis I can, the first round match is always different compared to the further you go (in the tournament),\u201d Sinner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very happy that I managed these matches as good as I could, when you are up two sets and a break you try to serve as best as you can.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, it felt like neither of us served well but I was returning well and especially on the second serve. I am happy about today, I am aiming to improve on the serve but the rest (of my game) I am quite comfortable with.\u201d Sinner has reached the final of all three Grand Slams this season, winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon either side of a defeat to Carlos Alcaraz at the French Open.<\/p>\n
He is bidding to become the first man to successfully defend the US Open since Roger Federer won the last of five consecutive titles in 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek moved into the third round of the US Open with a tough three-set win over Suzan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[2095,64,63,962,30618,74581,74576,28375,2041,2067,4873,668,74579,965,74580,74578,85,9210,74577,747,48923,23648,2614],"class_list":["post-103002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-denis-shapovalov","tag-home-girl","tag-italian-world-number","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-post-match-press-conference","tag-press-conference","tag-press-conference-afte","tag-roger-federer","tag-round-match","tag-sinner-storms","tag-sports","tag-staff-writers","tag-taylor-townsend-jelena-ostapenko","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-player","tag-tennis-world","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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