{"id":29743,"date":"2026-03-24T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29743"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:38:44","slug":"sinner-breaks-another-masters-record","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sinner-breaks-another-masters-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner breaks another Masters record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Second seeded Italian, Jannik Sinner, has broken another Masters 1000 record.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Sinner beat France&#8217;s Corentin Moutet, 6-1, 6-4 in the third round of the Miami Open in Florida, United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He has now won 26 consecutive sets at Masters level, moving clear of Novak Djokovic, who previously held the record at 24.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner has won the last two Masters events, in Indian Wells recently and in Paris last year, without dropping a set and, he was also in fine form\u00a0against\u00a0Moutet\u00a0in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner successfully saved one break point, while breaking the\u00a0Moutet\u00a0serve three times, for the straight sets win.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Italian will now face American, Alex Michelsen in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Sinner is aiming to become the first man to complete the &#8216;Sunshine Double&#8217; since Roger Federer achieved the feat in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14834,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-29743","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Jannik Sinner, has broken another Masters 1000 record","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29744,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29743\/revisions\/29744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}