Fourth seed Jannik Sinner underlined his title credentials by racing into the second week of the Australian Open with out dropping a set after a 6-0 6-1 6-3 demolition of Sebastian Baez within the third spherical on Friday.

The clean-hitting Italian banged down six aces and 34 winners to see off the Argentine twenty sixth seed in lower than two hours in cool and blustery circumstances on Margaret Court Arena, sealing the cope with a seventh break of serve. The 22-year-old was the most well liked participant on tour on the finish of final season and led Italy to a primary Davis Cup triumph in late November to conclude the season.

His determination to increase his vacation and skip the warm-up tournaments forward of the 12 months’s first Grand Slam raised some eyebrows, however Sinner felt it had been vindicated by his kind within the first three rounds in Melbourne. “In general, I feel really great here,” Sinner mentioned. “I’m really happy with how I’m feeling right now.

“Obviously matches are slightly bit totally different (from coaching) and let’s examine how I react within the subsequent rounds, however in the mean time I’m going nicely.” Sinner’s finest run on the Australian Open was a spot within the quarter-finals in 2022, and the percentages will favour him getting again to the final eight with Karen Khachanov his opponent within the fourth spherical.

The Italian has gained the final two of his three conferences with the Russian fifteenth seed with the one loss coming on the 2020 U.S. Open when he was nonetheless an adolescent.

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