Cincinnati | Sinner storms on, but Sonego & Ruud falls

The first round of the Cincinnati Open, the last Masters event before the US Open, was completed without major victims, who came in the second round when the seeds arrived at the action.

It is not easy to play here, the ball flies. You have to serve very precisely, but also with a good pace if you want to go far into the tournament Jannik Sinner

From Lorenzo Musetti and Casper Ruud, the 8th and 11th seeds, who both fell into French opponents, went into their opening matches respectively.

Benjamin Bonzi recovered from a first set of loss to remove Musetti 5-7 6-4 7-6 (4) and Arthur Rinderknecht survived Ruud 6-7 (5) 6-4 6-2 to continue to the third round

After placing his second top 10 victory of the season, Bonzi will opposite Stefanos Tsitsipas for a place in the last 16. After the Greek eventually sent the Fabian Marzsan of Hungary 7-6 (3) 6-2.

For Rindernech, his victory on the Norwegian was his first in five meetings with Ruud who had two breaking points at 4-2 in the decision maker he could not convert.

Jannik Sinner, on the other hand, the World No1 and TOP Seed, who are fighting for the first time since winning the Wimbledon title, shot past the Colombian qualifying match, Daniel Elahi Galan, 6-1 6-1 in just 59 minutes.

“Matches are always more different than practice sessions, so I didn’t know exactly what I could expect today,” Sinner said after gaining the fastest victory of his career.

“But I am very happy. It is not easy to play here, the ball flies. You have to serve very precisely, but also with a good pace if you want to go far in the tournament.”

The 23-year-old Italian made seven winners to five casual mistakes and only dropped one of the 13 first service points in a lightning set.

“Today I felt that I served in the places I wanted,” Sinner added. “There is still room to improve, but as a first round game I couldn’t have wished [for more]. I am very happy to be back here, the crowd is great. ‘

In the meantime, his rival Carlos Alcaraz opens his account on Sunday and he will be happy to prevent Sinner, the title defender, to keep the title. Canada’s Gabriel Diallo, a 7-5 6-4 winner about Sebastian Baez from Argentina, is in the nest for the world no. 1.

In a more difficult match Holger Rune, the 7th Seed, Roman Safiullin 7-5 7-6 (5) stood out to include his 50th victory over the victory over Masters Level.

“It’s only about accepting, but at the same time searching the best,” Rune said in response to difficult openers.

“Accepting that it may not happen in the first game, but the only way to get it is if you work on it from the first round. I believe I can play great tennis, so if I keep working, it will happen.”

The victory were third The three meetings with the Russian, found a third round collision with Alex Michelsen after the American passed the difficult Frenchman Corentin Moutet 3-6 6-3 6-4.

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Also by is the home favorite, Taylor Fritz, in recent weeks Toronto semi-finalist who produced another serving Master class to eliminate his Countryman Emilio Nava 6-4 6-4 in 68 minutes.

Fritz will then take the 31st placed Lorenzo Sonego who defeated the Zizou Bergs of Belgium 6-3 7-6 (4) earlier on Saturday.

In the hope that you are going better, last year’s FELINALIST FIFINALIST was Frances Tiafoe, who made an excellent start with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Spanish Roberto Carballes Baena.

“It’s great to come back to a place that I did so well and a place where I had one of the biggest weeks of my career,” he noticed in an interview on the field.

“I returned very well today, I quickly got balls on him,” Tiafoe said. “The courts are so fast, so returning is almost more important than to serve for me. If you can get balls deep upon return, you will be able to break at least.”

Tiafoe converted six of 17 breaking points against carballes Baena while he saved one of the four against him and will then take on the 20th Seed Ugo Humbert of France, a 6-3 6-4 winner against qualifying by Hong Kong Coleman Wong.