Sinner battles past Paul into US Open quarter-finals

NEW YORK : Top seed Jannik Sinner survived a hard-fought battle against Tommy Paul to beat the American 7-6(3) 7-6(5) 6-1 and reach the U.S. Open quarter-finals on Monday.
Sinner, who fired down 10 aces at a rocking Arthur Ashe Stadium, became the only man to reach the last eight at all four majors this year.
Paul, backed by a boisterous home crowd, produced some of his best tennis but his hopes of ending a 21-year U.S. drought in the men’s Grand Slams were snuffed out by Sinner’s precision play.
The Italian will next face 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev.