No. 1 Jannik Sinner advances to 2025 US Open quarterfinals

NEW YORK — Jannik Sinner dominated the one participant aside from Carlos Alcaraz who has defeated him this season, routing Alexander Bublik 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 on Monday evening to return to the US Open quarterfinals.

The top-seeded Sinner’s victory took simply 1 hour, 21 minutes, the second-shortest accomplished males’s match within the event. A primary-round victory for Tomas Machac was a minute shorter.

“At times I felt like today I was playing some great tennis, and I managed to break him very early, which then gave me the confidence to serve a little bit better and play from the back of the court a bit better,” Sinner stated.

“It was a faster, or a fast match.”

Sinner misplaced to Bublik in June in Halle, Germany, in a warmup event earlier than Wimbledon, however that was performed on a grass court docket. Trying to beat the defending US Open champion on a tough court docket is a special story — and virtually unimaginable lately.

Sinner, who additionally gained the previous two Australian Open titles, prolonged his win streak on the hard-court Grand Slams to 25 matches, tying John McEnroe for the fifth-longest streak by any man.

Sinner’s three dropped video games are the fewest in a second-week match at Flushing Meadows because the semifinals in 2015, when Novak Djokovic defeated Marin Cilic 6-0, 6-1, 6-2. It tied the fewest video games misplaced in Sinner’s main profession (6-0, 6-1, 6-2 vs. Jiri Lehecka within the 2025 French Open third spherical).

Sinner faces fellow Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No. 10 seed, on Wednesday, in what would be the first time two Italian males have met through the second week of a serious within the Open period. The different quarterfinal that day will pit No. 8 Alex De Minaur towards No. 25 Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Bublik, the No. 23 seed from Kazakhstan, had been one of many hottest gamers with an ATP Tour-leading 11 straight victories and three titles, which is tied for the second finest this 12 months behind Alcaraz’s six.

He had gained all 55 service video games coming into this match, but Sinner broke him eight occasions.

Bublik may solely smile at occasions, together with after the match, when he informed Sinner on the internet that “I’m not bad.”

But he wasn’t practically adequate towards Sinner, who had an 86-46 benefit in factors gained. Bublik helped by committing 13 double-faults.

Sinner famous that Bublik had a late end Saturday evening in his five-set victory over No. 14 seed Tommy Paul, and tried to check his power degree Monday in his first evening match of this event.

“I tried to move him around, trying to see how he moves, trying to put it more on the physical side,” Sinner stated. “Today I played some good tennis at times. At times he gave me some free points.”

Sinner improved to 35-4 this 12 months. Alcaraz beat him within the French Open remaining and in addition in Rome and Cincinnati — the place Sinner was sick and needed to cease enjoying within the first set.

ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.