{"id":168591,"date":"2025-09-25T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168591\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:04:17","slug":"sinner-sweeps-cilic-in-beijing-return-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168591\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner Sweeps Cilic in Beijing Return \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, September 25, 2025
Photo credit: Jon Buckle\/ROLEX<\/p>\n

Jannik Sinner launched his quest to reclaim the Beijing title with a bang.<\/p>\n

In a match of former US Open champions, Sinner broke serve four times crushing Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-2 in today\u2019s China Open opener.<\/p>\n

It was Sinner\u2019s first match since bowing to Carlos Alcaraz in this month\u2019s US Open final on September 7th.<\/p>\n

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The top-seeded Sinner won 18 of 29 points played on the Croatian\u2019s second serve. Sinner saved the lone break point he faced.<\/p>\n

The match was deadlocked at 2-all when Sinner surged through four games in a row to snatch the first set.<\/p>\n

Moving Cilic corner-to-corner with blistering groundstrokes, Sinner stormed to a 5-1 second-set lead.<\/p>\n

The reigning Australian Open and Wimbledon winner saved the only break point he faced at 30-40 in the last game before serving out a one hour, 21-minute triumph.<\/p>\n

Launching his quest for a third straight Beijing Open final, Sinner raised his 2025 record to 38-5.<\/p>\n

The 2023 China Open champion, Sinner fell to Carlos Alcaraz, who is playing Tokyo this week, in the 2024 final.<\/p>\n

Sinner, who has reached finals in six of seven tournament starts this season, improved to 60-0 vs. opponents ranked outside the Top 10 on hard courts since his loss to Ben Shelton at the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Italian will face 23-year-old Frenchman Terence Atmane next.<\/p>\n

Qualifier Atmane defeated Chinese wild card Zhizhen Zhang 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Frenchman Alexandre Muller upset fifth-seeded Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4. Muller will play Fabian Marozsan next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, September 25, 2025Photo credit: Jon Buckle\/ROLEX Jannik Sinner launched his quest to reclaim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-168591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168591","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=168591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}