{"id":77405,"date":"2024-04-11T18:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/?p=77405"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:38:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:38:57","slug":"sinner-surges-into-monte-carlo-qfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/sinner-surges-into-monte-carlo-qfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner surges into Monte-Carlo QFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner reached his third ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final of the season Thursday when he defeated Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4, 6-2 at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Riding an eight-match winning streak, the Italian navigated through an early exchange of breaks before increasing his level at 4-4 in the opening set, breaking the German\u2019s serve and proceeding to close the set behind his own delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old struck the ball with weight, despite an uncharacteristic 10 unforced errors in the first set, and sent Struff from corner-to-corner in heavy-hitting baseline rallies to advance after one hour, 17 minutes. Sinner is now 2-0 in his ATP Head2Head series with the World No. 25. The pair\u2019s previous meeting came last month in Indian Wells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a dangerous player for sure. I had to be very, very careful,\u201d Sinner said. \u201cI broke him quite early and then he broke me back. I knew it was going to be really tough, but I guess I returned really well, especially on second serves. I can be very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A two-time ATP Masters 1000 titlist, Sinner\u2019s quarter-final opponent Friday will be seventh seed Holger Rune or ninth seed Grigor Dimitrov, whom the Italian beat in the Miami final. Sinner lost to Rune in last year\u2019s Monte-Carlo semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy. Every match is different. I\u2019m happy again to be in the next round,\u201d Sinner said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be really tough. Against both players I\u2019ve always had very tough battles, tough matches. I\u2019m looking forward to it and as always, I\u2019m going to have to raise the level if I want to win. Let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second seed leads the ATP Tour in wins (24) and titles (3) this season, having triumphed at the Australian Open, in Rotterdam and Miami. Sinner must reach the last four in the Principality to remain the No. 2 player in the PIF ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Struff, 33, earned his 200th tour-level match win Tuesday when he beat Borna Coric in the second round. The 6\u20194\u201d German, who made last year\u2019s Madrid final, was aiming for his fourth ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian chasing fourth title of season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sinner surges into Monte-Carlo QFs - Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/sinner-surges-into-monte-carlo-qfs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sinner surges into Monte-Carlo QFs - 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