{"id":29881,"date":"2026-03-25T12:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&p=29881"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:41:44","slug":"red-hot-sinner-overcomes-michelsen-to-reach-miami-quarters","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/red-hot-sinner-overcomes-michelsen-to-reach-miami-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Red hot Sinner overcomes Michelsen to reach Miami quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World number two Jannik Sinner fought back in the second set against American Alex Michelsen to seal a \u200b7-5 7-6(4) victory and reach the Miami Open quarter-finals \u200con Tuesday, extending his record run of consecutive sets won at Association of Tennis Professionals Masters 1000 events.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sinner edged a tight opening set before facing \u200ba sterner test in the second, where he trailed \u200b5-2 as Michelsen raised his level from the \u2060baseline.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Italian fought back to force a tiebreak, which he \u200bclosed out to maintain his perfect record against the American \u200band further stretch his unprecedented run of straight sets won at Masters 1000 level to 28.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I felt like the serve helped me quite \u200ba lot today, especially in important moments and in \u200bthe tiebreak, so I’m happy about that,” Sinner said in his on-court \u200cinterview.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I \u2060know that if I want to go far in this tournament, I have to improve from the back of the court. Tomorrow is a day off, which helps me and \u200bI will try \u200bto find \u2060good rhythm in the practice session. Then we’ll see how things go.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sinner also reached his \u200b20th Masters quarter-final, while he kept alive his \u200bbid \u2060for a rare “Sunshine Double” after lifting the title at Indian Wells earlier this month without dropping a set.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 24-year-old could become \u2060the \u200bfirst man since Roger Federer in \u200b2017 to win both US hard court Masters events in the same season.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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–Reuters–<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14834,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-29881","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Jannik Sinner fought back in the second set against American Alex Michelsen","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29881","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\/29881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29882,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29881\/revisions\/29882"}],"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=29881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}