Jannik Sinner cruised to victory over Daniel Altmaier in his first-round match in Vienna on Wednesday as he returned to action for the first time since hobbling out of the Shanghai Masters.<\/p>\n
The world number two raced to a 6-0, 6-2<\/a> victory over German Altmaier<\/a>, posting his quickest win of the year in just 58 minutes.<\/p>\n Sinner<\/a> will face fellow Italian Flavio Cobolli<\/a> in the last 16 on Thursday as he continues his bid for a fourth title of the season.<\/p>\n The four-time Grand Slam champion had to retire with cramps earlier this month in his third-round match against Tallon Griekspoor<\/a> in Shanghai.<\/p>\n But he beat Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, Novak Djokovic<\/a> and Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> in an exhibition event in Saudi Arabia last week and was in fine form again in the Austrian capital.<\/p>\n Sinner did not face a single break point in the match and lost just six points in the opening set as he blew the 51st-ranked Altmaier off the court.<\/p>\n “I feel like in the first set everything was working very well,” said Sinner.<\/p>\n “I’m very happy about today’s performance, starting the tournament in a very positive way, not only game-wise but feeling-wise.”<\/p>\n Earlier, Daniil Medvedev<\/a> continued his strong form by defeating Nuno Borges<\/a> 6-4, 6-7(7), 6-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n The former world number one ended a two-year wait for an ATP title last weekend in Almaty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner cruised to victory over Daniel Altmaier in his first-round match in Vienna on Wednesday as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-220355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}