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Sinner, Sabalenka sail into Cincinnati quarter-finals <\/p>\nDefending champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka booked quarter-final berths at the rain-hit ATP-WTA Cincinnati Open on Wednesday with straight-set wins. <\/p>\n
Sinner, Sabalenka sail into Cincinnati quarter-finals <\/p>\n
Sinner shrugged off a mid-match rain interruption lasting nearly three hours as he advanced with a 6-4, 7-6 victory over Adrian Mannarino. <\/p>\n
He next faces Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, who beat Benjamin Bonzi of France 6-4, 6-3. <\/p>\n
Sabalenka, taken to three sets in her previous match with Emma Raducanu, defeated Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-1, 7-5, winning a season-leading 50th match of 2025 and reaching her 29th career last-eight at the elite 1000 level. <\/p>\n
Sabalenka had to work after surrendering a second-set break, but she broke Bouzas Maneiro in the final game to seal the victory. <\/p>\n
“The key was to focus and put as much pressure as possible on her serve,” Sabalenka said. “I was up a break, made a couple of mistakes and she broke me back. <\/p>\n
“I’m glad to win in straight sets – I didn’t want to stay for three hours.” <\/p>\n
World number one Sinner, playing his first tournament since lifting the trophy at Wimbledon, notched his 24th consecutive hardcourt match win to gain his fifth quarter-final of the season. <\/p>\n
The victory required patience, with the Italian who turns 24 on Saturday passing some of the afternoon weather pause by playing cards with his team. <\/p>\n
Sinner had won the first set and they were on serve in the second when they returned, but Frenchman’s tricky game took a toll as Sinner was broken while trying to serve out the match. <\/p>\n
The second set instead went to a tiebreak, with the Italian firing his 11th and 12th aces to clinch victory. <\/p>\n
“He’s a very difficult opponent, different from the other payers,” Sinner said. “He can read the opponent well. <\/p>\n
“It was a struggle to close it out, but I’m happy to be in the quarter-finals.” <\/p>\n
Earlier former champion Alexander Zverev polished off a weather-hit third-round victory, winning the final four points of a 6-4, 6-4 win over Brandon Nakashima. <\/p>\n
The entire one-game exercise, with 2021 Cincy winner Zverev leading 6-4, 5-4 when play resumed, took less than two minutes, with the third seed set for a later fourth-round encounter against Toronto finalist Karen Khachanov. <\/p>\n
Fifth seed Ben Shelton, last week’s Toronto winner, reached the fourth round with a 7-6 , 6-3, victory over Roberto Bautista Agut in a match rescheduled from Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Women’s third seed Iga Swiatek and men’s seventh seed Holger Rune both booked quarter-final berths before afternoon showers struck. <\/p>\n
Wimbledon champion Swiatek beat Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 6-3, overcoming 33 unforced errors in a 95-minute victory. <\/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
Rune advanced as 2024 finalist Frances Tiafoe retired with lower back pain with Denmark’s Rune up 6-4, 3-1. <\/p>\n
The match was a re-run of a quarter-final here a year ago, won by the American who went on to fall to Sinner in the final. <\/p>\n
Tiafoe received treatment on his back but it didn’t seem to help as Rune gained control. <\/p>\n
The American walked dejectedly off court, carrying only a pair of shoes while an official carted away his massive tennis bag. <\/p>\n
Rune, bothered this season by his own injury worries, secured his 100th career hard-court win and his first defeat of a top 20 opponent since he beat Carlos Alcaraz in the Barcelona final in April. <\/p>\n
In another match interrupted on Tuesday, Magda Linette reached the fourth round at Cincinnati for the first time with a 7-6 , 3-6, 6-3 upset of fourth-seeded American Jessica Pegula. <\/p>\n
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