{"id":21928,"date":"2025-10-04T18:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21928"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:04:08","slug":"sinner-launches-shanghai-title-defence-with-easy-win-against-altmaier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21928","title":{"rendered":"Sinner launches Shanghai title defence with easy win against Altmaier"},"content":{"rendered":"
World number two Jannik Sinner launched his Shanghai Masters title defence in fine form on Saturday, breezing past Germany’s Daniel Altmaier 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n

Sinner, fresh from winning the China Open, broke early in both sets to take control and ease himself comfortably into the third round.<\/p>\n

The 49th-ranked Altmaier’s best chance came in the eighth game of the first set, but he failed to convert a breakpoint twice, allowing the Italian to hold with an ace.<\/p>\n

The second set provided even less opportunity to seriously bother the 24-year-old Wimbledon champion, but afterwards Sinner said it hadn’t been easy.<\/p>\n

“It’s very tough… I had not a lot of time to adjust for here, it’s very different conditions (to Beijing),” said Sinner.<\/p>\n

Read:\u00a0https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2568877\/changing-a-lot-after-us-open-loss-sinner<\/p>\n

Sinner’s path to retaining the title this year has been made easier by the withdrawal of great rival Carlos Alcaraz, who dropped out last-minute to rest.<\/p>\n

The Italian’s next match is on Sunday against the Netherlands’ Tallon Griekspoor.<\/p>\n

Four-time Shanghai champion Novak Djokovic will take to the court again on Sunday as well, facing Germany’s 150th-ranked Yannick Hanfmann.<\/p>\n

World number three Alexander Zverev defied a foot problem to book his place in the third round, beating France’s Valentin Royer 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n

The German had a blistering start, breaking Royer in the first game and then hitting three aces to easily hold the second.<\/p>\n

The play settled as the Frenchman found his feet, but a crucial stumble saw him miss a break point in the eighth game, and Zverev took the set.<\/p>\n

Both players missed chances to break in the second, wowing the crowd with multiple tense rallies.<\/p>\n

Zverev finally broke in the ninth game then held the last game to win, despite having to take a medical break after limping off court.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a nice feeling to finish a match like that,” Zverev said afterwards, wincing.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy to be through in two sets and I’ll keep fighting through.”<\/p>\n

World number seven Alex de Minaur is through to the next round after comfortably dispatching Argentina’s Camilo Ugo Carabelli 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Russia’s Andrey Rublev, ranked 14th in the world, was upset by qualifier Yoshihito Nishioka 2-6, 6-1, 6-4.<\/p>\n

But compatriot Daniil Medvedev dominated qualifier Dalibor Svrcina to advance 6-1, 6-1.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World number two Jannik Sinner launched his Shanghai Masters title defence in fine form on Saturday, breezing past Germany’s Daniel Altmaier 6-3, 6-3. Sinner, fresh from winning the China Open, broke early in both sets to take control and ease himself comfortably into the third round. The 49th-ranked Altmaier’s best chance came in the eighth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}