{"id":433172,"date":"2026-02-19T00:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433172\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:26:11","slug":"qatar-open-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner-into-quarter-finals-with-straight-sets-victories-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433172\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Open: Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner into quarter-finals with straight-sets victories | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz reached the quarter-finals at the Qatar Open with a straight-sets victory over Valentin Royer.<\/p>\n

The world No 1, in his first tournament since completing the career Grand Slam at the Australian Open, clinched the first set 6-2 but had to weather a second-set fightback from his French opponent before progressing 7-5.<\/p>\n

The victory saw Alcaraz extend his outdoor hard-court winning streak to 27 matches.<\/p>\n

“I had to be prepared for everything,” Alcaraz said on Sky Sports Tennis.<\/p>\n

“There were some moments where a small part of my mind thought about a third set, but the rest was working to find solutions.<\/p>\n

\"Alcaraz\"<\/p>\n

“I’m really pleased and happy to find good rhythm and tennis again.”<\/p>\n

Alcaraz progresses through to a 55th ATP Tour quarter-final and will play Russian Karen Khachanov, who overcame Hungarian Marton Fucsovics 6-2 4-6 6-4 in the second round.<\/p>\n

“It’s a great number,” the 22-year-old added. “I’m not thinking of the number of quarter-finals, I think about the number of finals, that’s my mindset and goal.”<\/p>\n

\"Alcaraz\"<\/p>\n

Sinner into Qatar quarters<\/p>\n

Second seed Jannik Sinner defeated Australia’s Alexei Popyrin in straight sets to book his place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

The Italian made light work of his opponent, prevailing 6-3 7-5 in one hour and 25 minutes to set up a last-eight tie against Jakub Mensik of Czechia.<\/p>\n

Watch the ATP and WTA Tours, live on Sky Sports or stream with NOW<\/a> and the Sky Sports app<\/a>, giving Sky Sports customers access to over 50 per cent more live sport this year at no extra cost. Find out more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz reached the quarter-finals at the Qatar Open with a straight-sets victory over Valentin Royer. The world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-433172","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\/433172","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=433172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}