{"id":110312,"date":"2025-08-31T19:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110312\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:21:18","slug":"martina-navratilova-says-what-she-finds-really-amazing-and-unusual-about-jannik-sinner-as-he-makes-us-open-round-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110312\/","title":{"rendered":"Martina Navratilova says what she finds &#8216;really amazing&#8217; and unusual about Jannik Sinner as he makes US Open round four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jannik Sinner has battled into the fourth round of the US Open after overcoming Denis Shapovalov in round three.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/denis-shapovalov-shares-how-he-honestly-feels-about-having-to-play-jannik-sinner-at-the-us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shapovalov was looking forward to playing Sinner<\/a>, having beaten him in their only previous meeting on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The duo met in the very early stages of the Australian Open in 2021, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/denis-shapovalov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shapovalov<\/a> defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinner<\/a> 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>But it was the Italian who emerged victorious in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> rematch, claiming a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 win in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner, who is defending his title at Flushing Meadows, battled to the victory after three hours and 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2232915444-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Jannik Sinner celebrates at the 2025 US Open\" class=\"wp-image-125725\" \/>Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesWhat Martina Navratilova finds amazing and unusual about Jannik Sinner<\/p>\n<p>The top seed now turns his attention to 23rd seed Alexander Bublik in the round of 16, having left tennis legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/martina-navratilova\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martina Navratilova<\/a> really impressed with his efforts thus far.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/jannik-sinner-and-alexander-zverev-are-in-disagreement-over-the-conditions-at-the-us-open-this-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev are in disagreement over the conditions at the US Open this year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/watch\/sky-sports-tennis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sky Sports Tennis<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s really amazing for someone that tall, that lanky and long-limbed to be that well balanced but he has to be. If he\u2019s not he gets in more trouble, as he\u2019s so much bigger to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martina Navratilova says what Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz would never do to their box<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov certainly threatened another defeat against Sinner, which would have represented a huge upset.<\/p>\n<p>But the 27th seed started to lose his way as the match progressed, and was seen carrying out negative interactions with his box, including a sarcastic thumbs up.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing her verdict on his complaints, Navratilova said: \u201cYou never see Carlos or Sinner doing sarcastically to the box cheer me on more or cheer less. There\u2019s a reason for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can figure out themselves number one and they just wouldn\u2019t do that because they know it\u2019s not helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov\u2019s clear frustration on the court may just have given Sinner a slight mental boost, as well as negatively impacting his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The world number one now turns his focus to Bublik, who intriguingly represents the only player to have beaten Sinner in 2025 other than Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner has battled into the fourth round of the US Open after overcoming Denis Shapovalov in round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6733,49,48,615,3271,82,593,2084],"class_list":{"0":"post-110312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-jannik-sinner","12":"tag-martina-navratilova","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}