Printed on: Aug 17, 2025 02:35 am IST
TENNIS-CINCINNATI/ (TV):Tennis-Birthday boy Sinner ends Atmane’s dream run to succeed in Cincinnati remaining
Aug 16 – Prime seed and defending champion Jannik Sinner, enjoying on his twenty fourth birthday, ended French qualifier Terence Atmane’s dream run on the Cincinnati Open with a 7-6 6-2 win on Saturday to succeed in the ultimate of the U.S. Open tune-up occasion.
Sinner received a outstanding 91% of his first-serve factors, didn’t face a single break level in the course of the 86-minute match and transformed two of 5 break factors in his first profession assembly with world quantity 136 Atmane.
“Very, very robust problem,” Sinner stated on courtroom after being serenaded with “Blissful Birthday” by the group. “Each time if you play in opposition to somebody fully new it’s extremely troublesome.
“I knew that I needed to be very, very cautious and my mindset in the present day was in a great place. I really feel like I dealt with conditions on the courtroom very nicely.”
The Italian world primary had his palms full all through a tightly contested first set which featured an imperious serving show from each males and never a single break level alternative for both participant.
Sinner, who misplaced simply three factors on serve within the opening set, held to like for a 3rd consecutive sport to pressure the tiebreak the place Atmane gifted his opponent the opening level with a double fault and from there the Italian by no means regarded again.
The reigning U.S. Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon champion opened the second set with a nine-minute maintain of serve, then held to like earlier than lastly breaking Atmane for a 3-1 lead that gave him the cushion he wanted.
Sinner adopted that with one other maintain to like to go 4-1 up and all however finish any hope for Atmane, who beat top-10 gamers Taylor Fritz and Holger Rune en path to his maiden ATP Masters 1000 semi-final.
With Atmane serving at 2-5 and trying to keep within the match, Sinner shortly jumped forward 0-40 earlier than sealing the win on his third match level when the Frenchman despatched a forehand into the online.
Sinner will face both second seed Carlos Alcaraz or Alexander Zverev in Monday’s remaining.
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