World number one Jannik Sinner reached the Cincinnati Open quarter-finals with a 6-4 7-6 (7-4) victory over a stubborn Adrian Mannarino.<\/p>\n
Sinner quickly took control of the match when he broke the 37-year-old Frenchman in the third game.<\/p>\n
Mannarino, ranked 89th in the world, saved a break point in the seventh game with an ace but the left-hander could not stop his opponent going on to claim the first set.<\/p>\n
Play was suspended for rain with Sinner 40-30 on serve and 2-1 down in the second set, before the players resumed about two hours and 45 minutes later.<\/p>\n
Mannarino proved a more obdurate competitor in the second set but, despite saving three break points at 5-5, eventually succumbed to the fourth when he netted a backhand to go 6-5 down.<\/p>\n
Sinner was 30-0 up when serving for the match but some inspired tennis earned Mannarino his first break point which he took with a stunning forehand return.<\/p>\n
However, Sinner produced back-to-back aces to win the tie-break 7-4 and extend his record to four wins in as many matches against Mannarino.<\/p>\n
“He’s a tough opponent,” said Sinner. “Very different to all the other opponents. Not only because he is a leftie but also how he hits the ball – it’s very low.<\/p>\n
“I struggled a bit to close it out but this can happen in this sport and I’m very happy to be in the next round.”<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Alexander Zverev needed just one game to complete his victory over Brandon Nakashima after rain had forced their match to be suspended overnight with the score 5-4 in the second set.<\/p>\n
Zverev progressed 6-4 6-4, and will play again on Wednesday when he takes on Russian Karen Khachanov in the fourth round.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile seventh seed Holger Rune is through to the quarter-finals after his opponent, American 10th seed Frances Tiafoe, retired with a back injury while trailing 6-4 3-1.<\/p>\n
In the women’s draw, Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek made it through to the last eight with a 6-4 6-3 win against Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n
World number three Swiatek, of Poland, hit 33 unforced errors against the Romanian but managed to complete her match before the rain delay. <\/p>\n
“I wanted to be more solid than in my last match,” Swiatek said. “I’m happy with the level of my focus and the consistency.<\/p>\n
“It was a good match for sure. Not easy conditions as well – super humid – so I’m happy that I didn’t let this affect me.”<\/p>\n
After their contest was suspended on Tuesday, fellow Pole Magda Linette completed a 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 6-3 upset against American fourth seed Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Jannik Sinner reached the Cincinnati Open quarter-finals with a 6-4 7-6 (7-4) victory over a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-81328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81328","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=81328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}