The Philippine Star
August 30, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Reigning males’s champion Jannik Sinner charged into the third spherical of the US Open on Thursday as Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek battled to maintain their title bids intact.
Sinner swatted Australia’s Alexei Popyrin apart 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to stretch his Grand Slam profitable streak on onerous courts to 23 matches.
The Italian prime seed has made a convincing begin in his bid to turn out to be the primary man to repeat as US Open champion since Roger Federer received 5 in a row from 2004-2008.
“I’m very completely satisfied that I managed these matches nearly as good as I might,” mentioned Sinner, who dropped solely 4 video games in his opening win earlier than blasting previous the Thirty sixth-ranked Popyrin.
Sinner faces Canadian twenty seventh seed Denis Shapovalov within the third spherical on Saturday.
Third seed Alexander Zverev cruised to a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win over Britain’s Jacob Fearnley, whereas Lorenzo Musetti eased previous Belgium’s David Goffin.
Russian fifteenth seed Andrey Rublev beat American wild card Tristan Boyer in 4 units. He advances to a Final 32 tie with Hong Kong’s Coleman Wong.
Wong, a 21-year-old qualifier, prolonged his New York fairytale with a 7-6 (7/5), 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 win over Australian Adam Walton.
Tommy Paul survived a brutal five-set epic that completed at 1:46 a.m. to struggle his well past Nuno Borges and into the third spherical of the US Open early Friday.
The 14th-seeded American lastly made it rely after 4 hours 25 minutes to tug by means of 7-6 (8/6), 6-3, 5-7, 5-7, 7-5 in New York.
Third seed Gauff beat Croatia’s Donna Vekic 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 regardless of being damaged 4 occasions within the opening set.
Swiatek began Thursday’s motion on Arthur Ashe by keeping off the Netherlands’ Suzan Lamens 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
