Six Sets played and won six sets for Jannik Sinner during Cincinnati Open this year.
The defending champion came one step closer to keeping his crown and conquering his first ATP Masters 1000 title of the season on Wednesday in Ohio, where he conquered a resilient version of the French qualifying match Adrian Manarino 6-4, 7-6 (4) in a rainbroken competition.
Sinner was not at his fairly flowing against Mannarino, but had too much for the Frenchman on either side of the two hours, 45 minutes of rain delay that arrived at the start of the second set. In a tight opening set, the number 1 player in the PIF ATP ranking produced a moment of magic on returning to 4-2 when he spoke a Mannarino-Smash before he hit a backhand winner of deep in court.
The Italian only made 52 percent of his first blasting in the game and had trouble finding his timing from the basic line in the second set against the Clean-Hitting Mannarino. After he had not served the game on 6-5, the 23-year-old remained composed in the Tie-Break for Triumph.
“He is a very tough opponent. Very different from other opponents, not only because he is a lifty, but how he touches the ball. It’s very low,” Sinner said. “I just tried to serve well and tried to see what I could do in the return games.
“He served very well, especially on the advertising, on the wide was very precise. I changed the position and tried to make him feel uncomfortable. I have a little trouble closing it, but this can happen in this sport and I am very happy to be in the next round.”
With his an hour, 48 minutes of victory, Sinner expanded his winning series to hard courts to 24 games, and surpassed Novak Djokovic’s 2015 run of 23 victories and climbing in eighth place on the list of the longest hard-court winning stripes of this century. The last defeat of the Italian on the surface came against Carlos Alcaraz in the Beijing final last October.
Sinner now leads Mannarino 4-0 in the Lexus ATP Head2head series of the couple and will then meet the 23rd Seed Felix auger-Aliases or another Frenchman, Benjamin Bonzi in his fifth quarter final of the year. The 23-year-old has won his last 21 games against French players.
Sinner plays his first tournament since he won his first Wimbledon title and is 29-3 of the season, according to Infosys ATP statistics. Only eight victories removed from 300 career victories, Sinner became the second player earlier in the month to qualify for the Nitto ATP finals of November and became a member of Alcaraz.
Sinner and Alcaraz will compete in an exciting battle for ATP-Einde at the end of the year 1 presented by PIF during the remaining months of the year. Alcaraz currently has a 1,440-point lead over Sinner in the PIF ATP Live Race to Turin.
Mannarino made Tommy Paul Van Streek to first reach the quarterfinals in Cincinnati, two years ago to the fourth round of a Masters 1000 event to continue to a Masters 1000 event. The 37-year-old found joy with his LeFty Serveer Serve Buiten Grond on the Advertising Court against Sinner, but his resistance was eventually broken in the second set of Tie-Break. Mannarino is 18 places higher to No. 71 in the PIF ATP Live rankings.
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