{"id":169920,"date":"2025-09-26T05:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169920\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:19:06","slug":"jannik-sinner-coasts-past-marin-cilic-to-begin-beijing-title-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169920\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner coasts past Marin Cilic to begin Beijing title charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wcl-typoNewsPerex_JFWVr fp-perex_59joV\" data-testid=\"wcl-typoNewsPerex\" itemprop=\"description\">Jannik Sinner beat Croatia&#8217;s Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday to cruise into round two in Beijing on his first showing since losing the US Open final.<\/p>\n<p>Next at the China Open, the world number two from Italy faces qualifier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/atmane-terence\/6mkEQ279\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terence Atmane<\/a> of France.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did a lot of work to be back in this position again, so I&#8217;m very happy,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/sinner-jannik\/6HdC3z4H\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sinner<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I missed the competition. Of course, you are nervous, you have doubts and it&#8217;s normal&#8230; but you have to be also excited to go again on court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment I feel great physically and mentally, which is the most important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/cilic-marin\/nLoK5syL\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cilic<\/a> was looking to snap a winless run stretching back to the Wimbledon last 16.<\/p>\n<p>The two were evenly matched in the first set until the 24-year-old Sinner broke for a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian added the next two games without losing a point and closed the set with minimum fuss.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner broke early to take control of the second set for a 2-1 lead and pushed that to 5-1, overpowering the 97th-ranked former US Open champion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/tennis\/cilic-m-nLoK5syL\/sinner-j-6HdC3z4H\/summary\/?mid=zkT7K1B6\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Four-time major champion Sinner secured a routine win<\/a> when Cilic returned into the net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big respect to him,&#8221; Sinner said. &#8220;I managed to break him quite early, which then gave me the confidence to continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sinner has vowed to introduce some unpredictability to his play after losing the New York final &#8211; and top ranking &#8211; this month to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/alcaraz-garfia-carlos\/UkhgIFEq\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s pressure off or on,&#8221; Sinner, who won the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year, said of their rankings swap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very, very happy with the season I have played, or am playing, because it was remarkable for my side what I did, but also for what Carlos is doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment he deserves to be there, you know, it&#8217;s as simple as that. He played more tournaments and he played all tournaments very, very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sinner is vying for a third straight Beijing final after winning on his China Open debut in 2023, before losing last year&#8217;s decider to Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>A WTA 1000 event is also taking place in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner beat Croatia&#8217;s Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday to cruise into round two in Beijing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-169920","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\/169920","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=169920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}