{"id":67815,"date":"2025-08-15T01:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67815\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T01:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T01:58:07","slug":"cincinnati-open-jannik-sinner-thrashes-felix-auger-aliassime-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67815\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open: Jannik Sinner thrashes Felix Auger-Aliassime to reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Jannik Sinner crushed Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-0 6-2 to cruise into the Cincinnati Open semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Auger-Aliassime had won both their previous encounters in 2022, and Sinner appeared to take exception to this as he quickly went about rectifying his record against the Canadian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Italian, who has won four Grand Slams since the pair last met in a match at this tournament three years ago, bageled Auger-Aliassime as he took the first set in just 27 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A stunned Auger-Aliassime served back-to-back double faults to concede an opening set in which he only managed to win nine points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world number 28 finally got on the scoreboard when a Sinner double fault &#8211; after which the 23-year-old was seen briefly walking in gingerly fashion &#8211; handed him the first game of the second set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Auger-Aliassime followed that by holding serve for the first time to go 2-0 up, but that was as good as it got for the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Jannik Sinner crushed Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-0 6-2 to cruise into the Cincinnati Open semi-finals. Auger-Aliassime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-67815","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\/67815","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=67815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}