Top seeds Jannik Sinner will be on Monday in the third round action at the Cincinnati Masters together with colleague Italian Lorenzo Sonego. Sinner is going against Gabriel Diallo, while Sonego is opposed to Taylor Fritz.
(1) Jannik Sinner vs. (30) Gabriel Diallo
After he skipped the Toronto -Masters, Sinner plays his first tournament since he cancel the Wimbledon trophy. De Wereld No. 1 started his Western & Southern Open defense on Saturday afternoon with a 6-1, 6-1 Rout of qualifying Daniel Elahi Galan. Despite missing three months of the season, Sinner still has a comfortable lead on top of the ranking and is second in the race to Turin.
The next for the 23-year-old on Monday is a very first meeting with Diallo, who enjoys the best season of his career. The 35th ranking has a record of 23-16 with a quarter-final run at The Madrid Masters, a title in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Sebastian Baez on Saturday in Cincinnati. Although Diallo is extremely dangerous with a big game, he is 0-4 lifespan against top 10 opponents three of the losses that come into straight sets. Count on the sinner who goes to the last 16 without any problems.
Choose: Sinner in 2
(4) Taylor Fritz versus (31) Lorenzo Sonego
Fritz and Sonego will be in their career for the eighth time on Monday for the eighth time. The head-to-head series is 5-2 in favor of Fritz, but the matchup is more skewed than that since the fourth rank American reached the top echelons of tennis. He is 3-0 in their last three games that go back to the Paris Masters from 2021 and he has taken their last two tilting in straight sets included in the same Cincinnati tournament in 2023.
Another convincing victory for Fritz should be in the cards. The 27-year-old has been on fire since the start of the Gras-Court Swing, with two titles (Stuttgart and Eastbourne), a semi-final in Wimbledon, and already a quarterfinals (Washington, DC) and semi-final (Toronto) on hard courts. Sonego did well to beat Zizou Bergs with 6-3, 7-6 (4) in his Cincyopener, but the 36th rank Italian is only 16-19 this year and he would rather be against Fritz on clay or even a slower hard court.
Pick: Fritz in 2
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