{"id":265466,"date":"2025-11-01T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265466\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:44:08","slug":"sinner-reaches-paris-masters-final-closes-in-on-no-1-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265466\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner reaches Paris Masters final, closes in on No. 1 ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS — Jannik Sinner<\/a> routed a weary-looking Alexander Zverev<\/a> 6-0, 6-1 in a little more than an hour on Saturday to reach the Paris Masters final and move closer to reclaiming the No. 1 ranking.<\/p>\n

The four-time Grand Slam champion from Italy will replace six-time major winner Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> at the top if he wins Sunday’s final against ninth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a>, who needs a win to clinch the eighth and final spot for the season-ending ATP Finals in Turin, Italy.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime earlier beat Alexander Bublik<\/a> 7-6 (3), 6-4 in their semifinal at La D\u00e9fense Arena.<\/p>\n

A laser-focused Jannik Sinner made it look easy Saturday, taking apart Alexander Zverev 6-0, 6-1 in just over an hour to reach the final of the Paris Masters tennis tournament.\u00a0AP Photo\/Christophe Ena<\/p>\n

Sinner extended his indoor winning streak to 25 matches, including a victory over Zverev in the Vienna final last weekend. He beat Zverev — the defending champion in Paris — for the fourth straight time to lead 5-4 in their career meetings.<\/p>\n

The second-seeded Sinner was 5-0 up in 25 minutes and then served out a first set in which he won 90% of his first-serve points, compared to only 47% for Zverev. He had five break points on Zverev’s serve, converting two of them.<\/p>\n

In the second set, Sinner broke Zverev for a 2-1 lead. The third-seeded German looked drained and stood with his hands on his knees after that game.<\/p>\n

Zverev had saved two match points to beat Daniil Medvedev<\/a> in three sets in their gritty quarterfinal on Friday to end a five-match losing streak against the Russian.<\/p>\n

Sinner will bid for his fifth title of the year and 23rd of his career on Sunday; Auger-Aliassime goes for his fourth of the season and ninth overall.<\/p>\n

They are 2-2 in head-to-heads, with Sinner winning the past two — including in the semifinals at this year’s US Open.<\/p>\n

Bublik led 4-1 in the second set but then lost five consecutive games, smashing his racket on the ground after one of them.<\/p>\n

Serving for the match, Auger-Aliassime began with his 12th ace. A forehand winner at the net gave him a first match point and he clinched it with another big forehand. Auger-Aliassime patted his heart and waved to the crowd.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime has won titles this year in Adelaide, Montpellier and Brussels.<\/p>\n

The No. 13-seeded Bublik was the first Kazakh to reach a Masters semifinal. He lost for the fourth time in six matches to Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS — Jannik Sinner routed a weary-looking Alexander Zverev 6-0, 6-1 in a little more than an hour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-265466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}