Match Report
\n Sinner reaches Paris QFs for first time, faces Shelton next<\/p>\n
Italian has won past 23 indoor matches<\/p>\n
October 30, 2025<\/p>\n
Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner in action in Paris on Thursday.
\n By Sam Jacot<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner<\/a> advanced to the quarter-finals at the Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> for the first time on Thursday, when he moved past Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> 7-5, 6-1 to keep alive his hopes of returning to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n The Italian moved tentatively at times between points in the opening set and flexed out his right leg but never called for a medical timeout during the 86-minute clash. The second seed struck 12 winners to just two unforced errors in the opening set to lead and then won a 10-minute game at the start of the second set to break Cerundolo\u2019s serve, striking a forehand winner on his second break point of the game. From that moment, Sinner raced to victory.<\/p>\n “I was up twice with the break in the first set and I could not convert,” Sinner said. “I put myself in not an easy situation, but I am happy with how I ended the match and I felt much better. Hopefully, it will give me the confidence to start off in a good way tomorrow. Hopefully, I can recover physically, which is my main priority. Today was a great match and a great performance from my side.”<\/p>\n With his win, Sinner became the first Italian to reach the quarter-finals at all nine ATP Masters 1000 events. The 24-year-old has triumphed at Masters 1000s in Miami, Canada, Cincinnati and Shanghai.<\/p>\n Sinner, who leads Cerundolo 4-2 in the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series, has won his past 23 matches indoors and has kept alive his hopes of capitalising on Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>\u2019s early Paris loss in the battle for World No. 1: The Italian can return to top spot next Monday if he can lift his first Masters 1000 title of the season.<\/p>\n Sinner will next meet Ben Shelton<\/a> after the American defeated Andrey Rublev<\/a> 7-6(6), 6-3. Shelton and Sinner will both compete at the Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n Shelton defeated Sinner in Shanghai in 2023 but has lost the following six meetings, not winning a set in any of the encounters. The American will hope to change that record on Friday.<\/p>\n In other action, Daniil Medvedev<\/a> remained in Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> contention with a hard-fought 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 win against Lorenzo Sonego<\/a>. The 29-year-old, 13th in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, must win the title in Paris to give himself a chance of competing in Turin next month.<\/p>\n Medvedev captured his first trophy in 882 days earlier in October in Almaty, having also reached semi-finals in Beijing and Shanghai in recent weeks. Into his 25th Masters 1000 quarter-final, Medvedev will next play Alexander Zverev<\/a> or Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Sinner reaches Paris QFs for first time, faces Shelton next Italian has won past 23 indoor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234641","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=234641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}