{"id":476024,"date":"2026-02-18T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476024\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:06:21","slug":"qatar-open-jannik-sinner-wins-first-match-since-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476024\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Open: Jannik Sinner wins first match since Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number two Jannik Sinner enjoyed a comfortable victory in his first match since losing to Novak Djokovic in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/clyn9l0zvnpo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open semi-finals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Italian claimed a straight-set win over the Czech Republic&#8217;s Tomas Machac at the Qatar Open in Doha on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner won 6-1 6-4 &#8211; wrapping up the first set in 27 minutes &#8211; and was then interviewed by former England footballer Rio Ferdinand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner will face Australia&#8217;s Alexei Popyrin in the last 16, with the world number 53 having beaten local wild card Mubarak Shannan Zayid 6-0 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 11 Daniil Medvedev claimed a straight-set win as well, beating China&#8217;s Juncheng Shang 6-4 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sixth seed Jakub Mensik is also through to the last 16 having come from behind to beat Great Britain&#8217;s Jan Choinski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After losing a first-set tie-break to the world number 124, the Czech number one recovered to win 6-7 (6-8) 6-2 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number two Jannik Sinner enjoyed a comfortable victory in his first match since losing to Novak Djokovic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-476024","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\/476024","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=476024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}