{"id":112485,"date":"2025-09-02T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112485\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:47:08","slug":"jannik-sinner-reveals-what-alexander-bublik-said-to-him-after-ruthless-us-open-thrashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112485\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner reveals what Alexander Bublik said to him after ruthless US Open thrashing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Bublik<\/a> could not believe what he saw from Jannik Sinner<\/a> after the defending US Open<\/a> champion marched into the quarter-finals with a 6-1 6-1 6-1 win against him in just 82 minutes.<\/p>\n

Bublik was the last player to beat Sinner, and the only player other than Carlos Alcaraz to win against him this season, when he did so on grass at Halle shortly before Wimbledon in June.<\/p>\n

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The 23rd seed had reached the fourth round in New York for the first time and without dropping his serve once, but was broken immediately by the World No 1 and Sinner showed no mercy as he set up a quarter-final clash with fellow Italian Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a nightmare match for Bublik, though, and after needing more than three-and-a-half hours to defeat Tommy Paul in the third round he crashed out amid a string of double faults, including one that was underarm.<\/p>\n

Bublik was left celebrating as he won a game in the third set. The 28-year-old almost fell into Sinner\u2019s arms at the net and had the World No 1 laughing along when he said to him: \u201cThat was so good. I\u2019m not so bad, but you\u2019re the GOAT\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know each other very well,\u201d Sinner told the crowd afterwards when asked what Bublik had said to him. \u201cWe had some tough battles, especially this year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe just said congrats and wished me all the best. He had a very tough match in the last match. Today he didn\u2019t serve as well as he usually serves. I broke him very early in every set which gave me the confidence to serve a bit better. I\u2019m very very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Bublik<\/p>\n

Bublik celebrated winning a game against the defending champion Sinner (AP)<\/p>\n

Sinner has now won 25 matches in a row at the hard-court grand slams after winning two Australian Opens and last year\u2019s US Open.<\/p>\n

Bublik may have been beaten before the match even began and said Sinner is \u201cis like an AI-generated player\u201d in a pre-game interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to move him around, trying to see how he moves, trying to put it more on the physical side,\u201d Sinner explained. \u201cToday I played some good tennis at times.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt times, you know, he gave me some free points. I just tried to stay as consistent as possible, and I think that today was maybe the main key.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Bublik could not believe what he saw from Jannik Sinner after the defending US Open champion marched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[12374,64,63,68060,754,85,747,48017],"class_list":{"0":"post-112485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexander-bublik","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-defending-champion","12":"tag-jannik-sinner","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-tommy-paul"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112485","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=112485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}