Sinner rolls past Tabilo, advance into quarter finals

Jannik Sinner extended his winning streak  to eight games on hard court after defeating Alejandro Tabilo 6-4, 6-3 to reach the quarter finals in Montreal.

The 22-year-old and World No.1 who is defending the title he won last season, easily defeated the Chilean whilst winning 92 per cent (11/12) of his first-serve points in the opening set and then eight consecutive points in the early stages of the second set to break Tabilo’s serve before taking full control of the encounter.

With his 79-minute win, Sinner set a quarter-final meeting with Andrey Rublev. The top seed is undertaking double duty on Saturday after rain cancelled Friday’s play and will return to Court Central at 7 p.m. local time to face Rublev.

Sinner, who is competing on hard court for the first time since he triumphed in Florida in March leads Rublev 5-2 in the pair’s ATP head to head series, having defeated the fifth seed en route to the Australian Open title in January.

The victory also put top seeded Jannik Sinner in the history books, as he becomes the first player to reach the quarter-final at each of his first 10 ATP events of the season since Novak Djokovic in 2015 and at 22 years and 358 days, the youngest to achieve the feat since Ivan Lendl in 1982 according to OptaAce.