NEW YORK (Reuters) – Top seed Jannik Sinner survived a hard-fought battle against Tommy Paul to beat the American 7-6(3) 7-6(5) 6-1 and reach the U.S. Open quarter-finals on Monday.
Sinner, who fired down 10 aces at a rocking Arthur Ashe Stadium, became the only man to reach the last eight at all four majors this year.
Paul, backed by a boisterous home crowd, produced some of his best tennis but his hopes of ending a 21-year U.S. drought in the men’s Grand Slams were snuffed out by Sinner’s precision play.
The Italian will next face 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev.
(Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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