Tennis, at the Doha tournament Sinner beats Popyrin and flies to the quarterfinals

John

By John

Jannik Sinner qualifies for the quarter-finals at the “Qatar ExxonMobil Open”, an ATP 500 tournament staged on the hard court of the capital of Qatar (with total prize money of 2,833,335). The South Tyrolean champion, number 2 in the world and in the draw, defeated the Australian Alexei Popyrin, 53rd in the ranking, in the second round (round of 16) in two sets with a score of 6-3 7-5, achieved in an hour and 25 minutes of play. For a place in the semi-final the Italian will face the Czech Jakub Mensik, n.16 ATP and sixth seeding, who got rid of the Chinese Zhizhen Zhang (319) 6-3 6-2. Other results from the round of 16: Stefanos Tsitsipas (Gre) b. Daniil Medvedev (Rus, 4) 6-3 6-4 Andrey Rublev (Rus, 5) b. Fabian Marozsan (Hun) 6-2 6-4 Karen Khachanov (Rus, 7) b. Marton Fucsovics (Hun) 6-2 4-6 6-4 Jiri Lehecka (Cze, 8) b. Zizou Bergs (Bel) 6-2 6-1 Arthur Fils (Fra) b. Quentin Halys (Fra) 6-1 7-6(7)