Within the wake of upset losses by No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz and No. 2 Novak Djokovic, males’s world No. 1 Jannik Sinner superior comfortably into the second week of the US Open on Saturday.
Sinner loved a businesslike 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 win over Australia’s Christopher O’Connell to achieve the spherical of 16, the place he’ll face both Canadian qualifier Gabriel Diallo or American Tommy Paul, the No. 14 seed.
Sinner ensured that doubtful historical past was not made Saturday at Flushing Meadows; because the begin of the Open period in 1968, there has by no means been a US Open with none of the lads’s high three seeds within the spherical of 16.
“Every little thing can occur on this sport,” Sinner stated in his on-court interview. “I attempt to keep on my aspect of the web and take it day-to-day. … Very completely happy to be nonetheless right here and hopefully I can play as many matches as attainable.”
After sluggish begins in his opening two matches, Sinner shot out of the blocks at Arthur Ashe Stadium for a 5-0 lead earlier than taking the primary set on serve. He broke early for a 2-1 lead within the second and went on to clinch the set with a vicious cross-court forehand winner.
Sinner fired 15 aces for the match and didn’t face a break level. He completed with 46 winners.
Within the first males’s match Saturday, Tomas Machac received 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 in opposition to David Goffin and moved into the fourth spherical at a serious for the primary time.
In the meantime, unseeded Botic Van de Zandschulp, who knocked out Alcaraz within the second spherical, misplaced to Britain’s Jack Draper 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
ESPN Stats & Info and Reuters contributed to this report.
