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\n <\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a tournament I missed last year, so I\u2019m very happy to be here,\u201d Sinner said after the match. \u201cEverything can happen. This sport is unpredictable. We try to keep attention very high. I\u2019m happy about today\u2019s performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Italian has not lost to a left-handed opponent in two and a half years. Moutet, a southpaw, was no exception. Asked to explain the streak, Sinner deflected with characteristic pragmatism. \u201cI don\u2019t know. We don\u2019t have so many lefties in our game. We try to prepare in the best possible way, to be tactically as perfect as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moutet : \u201cJust accept\u201d<\/p>\n
Moutet, for his part, was candid in defeat. \u201cHe\u2019s a better player and I need to work to improve my game. My level right now doesn\u2019t allow me to beat this kind of player. I just have to accept it, keep training, and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sinner came to Florida on the back of his Indian Wells title and arrived in the third round having barely broken sweat. Only seven men have won the Sunshine Double \u2013 Indian Wells and Miami in the same year \u2013 and the last was Roger Federer in 2017. Asked about it directly, Sinner kept it brief: \u201cWe go day by day. It\u2019s a tough, tough challenge ahead of me. I\u2019m happy to put myself in the position, and then we\u2019ll see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Standing alongside him in the last 16 of the bottom half is German seed No. 3 Alexander Zverev, who navigated a rocky three-setter against Croatian Marin Cilic 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 to hold his ground. The two of them are the only top-ten seeds still standing in the bottom half of the draw after a day that stripped it bare, with Felix Auger-Aliassime\u2019s (No. 7) and Daniil Medvedev\u2019s (No. 9) losses.<\/p>\n
French surge and top seeds fall<\/p>\n
Monday was a French afternoon before it became a Sinner evening. Terence Atmane was the one defeating Auger-Aliassime to reach the top 50 (6-3, 1-6, 6-3). Seed No. 31 Ugo Humbert beat Kazakhstani Alexander Shevchenko 6-4, 7-6(2) to reach the Miami last 16 for the first time, posting 32 winners and 14 aces with a 97 per cent first-serve points won rate.<\/p>\n
Quentin Halys followed him through, beating Pole Kamil Majchrzak 7-6(4), 6-1. The results came the day after Arthur Fils\u2019s demolition of Tsitsipas, and the French contingent now has four players in the last 16 \u2014 Fils, Atmane, Humbert and Halys. There had been no player from France at this level in Miami since 2016.<\/p>\n
The other major loss in the draw was Czech seed No. 12 Jakub Mensik, beaten by Frances Tiafoe (No. 19) 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(11) in a match that went deep into the afternoon. American Alex Michelsen, Sinner\u2019s next opponent, beat Chilean Alejandro Tabilo 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to earn his place in the last 16.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s results, Miami Open men\u2019s third round, bottom half<\/p>\n
Francisco Cerundolo (ARG, No. 18) d. Daniil Medvedev (RUS, No. 9): 6-0, 4-6, 7-5
Terence Atmane (FRA) d. Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, No. 7): 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
Frances Tiafoe (USA, No. 19) d. Jakub Mensik (CZE, No. 12): 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(11)
Alexander Zverev (GER, No. 3) d. Marin Cilic (CRO): 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
Alex Michelsen (USA) d. Alejandro Tabilo (CHI): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
Ugo Humbert (FRA, No. 31) d. Alexander Shevchenko (KAZ): 6-4, 7-6(2)
Quentin Halys (FRA) d. Kamil Majchrzak (POL): 7-6(4), 6-1
Jannik Sinner (ITA, No. 2) d. Corentin Moutet (FRA, No. 30): 6-1, 6-4<\/p>\n
4th round draw<\/p>\n
S. Korda (32) \u2013 M. Landaluce (Q)
J. Lehecka (21) \u2013 T. Fritz (6)
T. Paul (22) \u2013 T. Etcheverry (29)
A. Fils (28) \u2013 V. Vacherot (24)
Ugo Humbert (31) \u2013 F. Cerundolo (18)
A. Zverev (3) \u2013 Q. Halys
T. Atmane \u2013 F. Tiafoe (19)
J. Sinner (2) \u2013 A. Michelsen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Open presented by Itau \u2022Third round \u2022 Completed See draw Italian seed No. 2 Jannik Sinner defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-557044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557044","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=557044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}