{"id":238279,"date":"2025-11-01T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238279\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:47:09","slug":"paris-masters-jannik-sinner-dismantles-alexander-zverev-to-reach-felix-auger-aliassime-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238279\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Masters: Jannik Sinner dismantles Alexander Zverev to reach Felix Auger-Aliassime final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner beat Zverev in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c201w6nx47qo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closely-contested final in Vienna<\/a> six days ago, but the German was nowhere near his best in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having saved two match points in a lengthy quarter-final win over Daniil Medvedev on Friday, Zverev looked fatigued from the first point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He lost the opening set inside 30 minutes and did not hold serve until the first game of the second &#8211; and even then he had to save a break point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner was imperious though, hitting eight aces, winning 90% of first serve points and not facing a single break point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will bid for a fifth title of the year when he faces Auger-Aliassime, who earlier beat Alexander Bublik 7-6 (7-3) 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the men&#8217;s doubles, Britain&#8217;s Henry Patten and Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara reached the final with a 6-3 6-4 win over French pair Quentin Halys and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinner beat Zverev in a closely-contested final in Vienna six days ago, but the German was nowhere near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-238279","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\/238279","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=238279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}