Janik Sinner ready for Cincinnati quarterfinal against Auger-Aliassime

Masters successful Cincinnati enters its last stage, and the quarter-final matches bring absorbing duels. The archetypal racket of the world, 21-year-old Janik Sinner, volition look the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime. The Italian is looking guardant to this clash, though helium did not observe successful the erstwhile 2 meetings with him.

They played doubly successful 2022, earlier Sinner reached the apical of the ATP list. Auger-Aliassime won the archetypal clip successful Madrid with 6:1, 6:2, and the 2nd clip successful Cincinnati 2:6, 7:6 (1), 6:1. They planned a lucifer past twelvemonth successful Madrid arsenic well, but the Canadian won without going connected the court.

"I ne'er got Auger-Aliassime. We played a pugnacious lucifer here. I had a lucifer point, it was a large duel. He has a batch of potential, particularly due to the fact that helium serves good truthful it volition beryllium precise hard to beryllium honest. I'm looking guardant to playing with him though," said Sinner earlier the match.

Adrian Mannarin

In the circular of 16, the archetypal racket of the satellite was amended than Adrian Mannarin, 6:4, 7:6 (4), portion the Canadian defeated the French Benjamin Bonzi 6:4, 6:3.

"I similar challenges similar this, I anticipation to play astatine the highest level. I privation to play good against him, I person to amended my tennis. We'll spot what happens. The quarterfinals mean that we are adjacent the extremity of the tournament, I similar to beryllium astatine the precise end," admitted the Wimbledon champion.

Carlos Alcaraz defeated Luca Nardi 6:1, 6:4 and volition play for the semifinals against Andrey Rublev, who was amended than Francisco Cerundolo 6:2, 6:3.

The tourney is played successful hellish conditions - temperatures supra 45 degrees forced 7 tennis players to springiness up their matches successful bid not to endanger their health. Among them were Luciano Darderi, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Jakub Mensik, Arthur Rinderknech, Hugo Gaston, Karen Khachanov and Frances Tiafoe. 

Khachanov surrendered aft 70 minutes of play to Alexander Zverev, truthful Zverev volition play against the astonishment of the tournament, 136th connected the ATP list, Terence Atman, who knocked retired the 4th successful the world, Taylor Fritz, 3:6, 7:5, 6:3.