Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz eased by way of to the quarter-finals on the Cincinnati Open however fourth seed Taylor Fritz suffered a serious upset as he was knocked out by unseeded Frenchman Terence Atmane.
World No 1 Sinner prolonged his successful streak on onerous courts to 24 matches as he beat France’s Adrian Mannarino 6-4 7-6 (7-4) after being made to attend nearly three hours to get on courtroom by a rain delay.
Second seed Alcaraz then gained 6-1 6-4 in opposition to Italian Luca Nardi to make sure the pair stay on the right track for a fourth closing assembly of 2025, as they full their preparations for the US Open, reside on Sky Sports activities from August 24.
Within the ladies’s draw, Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek each superior comfortably however the fourth seed was additionally knocked out as Jessica Pegula misplaced to Poland’s Magda Linette.
Highlights of Jannik Sinner in opposition to Adrian Mannarino from the Cincinnati Open
The large shock of the day got here on the lads’s aspect as Fritz suffered a 3-6 7-5 6-3 defeat on house soil to 23-year-old Atmane, a qualifier who entered the event with a 1-4 tour-level report for the season.
The World No 136’s run to the final 16 had seen him take out fifteenth seed Flavio Cobolli and teenage Brazilian star Joao Fonseca, however a comeback victory over final 12 months’s US Open finalist Fritz undoubtedly ranks as the perfect of his profession.
Atmane will subsequent face seventh seed Holger Rune after the Dane knocked out one other American, tenth seed Frances Tiafoe, who retired with a again situation when trailing 6-4 3-1.
Sinner’s last-eight opponent shall be Felix Auger-Aliassime after the Canadian twenty third seed got here by way of 6-4 6-3 in opposition to France’s Benjamin Bonzi.
Alcaraz faces a doubtlessly stiffer problem within the type of Andrey Rublev, after the ninth seed crushed Argentina’s Francisco Comesana 6-2 6-3 to achieve the quarter-finals.
Alexander Zverev continues to be ready to be taught who his opponent shall be within the closing last-eight tie on the lads’s aspect of the draw, having superior as Karen Khachanov retired when the German third seed 7-5 3-0.
Zverev might subsequent face final week’s Toronto winner Ben Shelton, who completed off a straight units victory over Roberto Bautista Agut to arrange a Thursday conflict with twenty second seed Jiri Lehecka.
Sabalenka wins once more after Raducanu thriller
Highlights of Aryna Sabalenka in opposition to Jessica Bouzas from the Cincinnati Open
Within the ladies’s occasion, prime seed Sabalenka backed up her thrilling victory over Britain’s Emma Raducanu by beating Spain’s Jessica Bouzas 6-1 7-5 to say a tour-leading fiftieth win of the 12 months.
Earlier, Poland’s Swiatek additionally superior in straight units with a 6-4 6-4 victory over Romanian Sorana Cirstea.
However essentially the most eye-catching results of the day was delivered by Swiatek’s compatriot Linette, because the thirty first seed accomplished a 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 6-3 win over Pegula to achieve the final 16.
Linette, whose victory was unfold over two days on account of rain delays, will play once more on Thursday – in opposition to Veronika Kudermetova – as the underside half of the ladies’s spherical of 16 is accomplished, with second seed Coco Gauff additionally in motion in opposition to Lucia Bronzetti.
Highlights of Elena Rybakina in opposition to Madison Keys from the Cincinnati Open
Sabalenka will face ninth seed Elena Rybakina within the final eight after the 2022 Wimbledon champion beat sixth seed Madison Keys 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 6-2.
Swiatek’s subsequent opponent shall be twenty eighth seed Anna Kalinskaya after she got here from behind to beat twelfth seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-1.
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