{"id":47616,"date":"2025-08-06T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47616\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:58:07","slug":"jannik-sinner-and-carlos-alcaraz-pulled-apart-as-cincinnati-draw-suits-tennis-icons-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47616\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz pulled apart as Cincinnati draw suits tennis icons | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sinner, 23, isn\u2019t likely to be troubled first up. He\u2019s in line to face Czech player V\u00edt Kopriva, providing the world No.80 can beat a qualifier in his first-round match.<\/p>\n

It is not until the last-16 that things potentially get tricky for the Italian, where he is in line to play 13th seed Tommy Paul. Fourth seed Taylor Fritz<\/a> is also on his side of the draw, although the pair cannot meet until the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

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Alcaraz will return against the winner of Italian Mattia Bellucci or Ukraine<\/a>\u2019s Damir Dzumhur. The latter was ranked 18th some seven years ago, but both men now lie outside the world\u2019s top 50.<\/p>\n

If he wants to gain a measure of revenge on Sinner, the 22-year-old will need to overcome Alexander Zverev<\/a> if the two rivals make the semi-final stage. The Spaniard won the title in Cincinnati 2023, before Sinner prevailed 12 months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinner, 23, isn\u2019t likely to be troubled first up. He\u2019s in line to face Czech player V\u00edt Kopriva,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[26707,870,13301,26706,811,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-47616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alcaraz-sinner","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-cincinnati-open-draw","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47616","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=47616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}