Sinner Shines For First Top 10 Win In Rotterdam

Jannik Sinner struck 27 winners and closed out his first Top 10 victory in style on Thursday at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament. The 18-year-old wild card overcame World No. 10 and 2017 runner-up David Goffin 7-6(7), 7-5 and will next play Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain in the quarter-finals at the Rotterdam Ahoy.

Sinner clinched the first set, which lasted 68 minutes, with a forehand — his 15th winner — on his fifth set point in the tie-break. The pair had exchanged service breaks at the start of the match. Fourth seed Goffin took a 2-0 lead in the second set, but 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals champion Sinner recovered with his solid groundstrokes and broke for a 6-5 lead when Goffin hit his seventh double fault.

Later today, second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas takes on Aljaz Bedene and third seed and defending champion Gael Monfils, winner of last week’s Open Sud de France title, meets Gilles Simon. Seventh seed Andrey Rublev, with a 12-1 record in 2020, faces Alexander Bublik, while Vasek Pospisil challenges Filip Krajinovic.

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