New York, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 3rd Sep, 2024) World number one Jannik Sinner and former champion Daniil Medvedev set their sights on the US Open quarterfinals on Monday in a tournament without superstar duo Novak Djokovic and Carlos. Alcaraz.
Sinner, who won his first Slam at the Australian Open this year, faces Tommy Paul while 2021 New York champion Medvedev takes on Portuguese outsider Nuno Borges.
French Open champion and women’s world number one Iga Swiatek, meanwhile, hopes to take another step closer to a second US Open title when the 2022 winner takes on Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova.
Sinner, 23, faces Paul of the United States hoping to become the only man this year to reach the quarter-finals at all four Grand Slams.
The Italian made it to the last eight in 2022 where he lost a match point losing to eventual champion Alcaraz.
His Spanish rival was taken out of the New York equation this time after the world number three and French Open and Wimbledon champion was knocked out in the second round.
Paul, the 14th seed, is looking to join compatriots Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals as the United States seeks a first men’s Grand Slam champion since Andy Roddick triumphed in New York in 2003.
“I don’t know if I think, like, ‘opportunity’ too much,” said Paul.
“But it’s definitely an opportunity to play at Arthur Ashe Stadium, so I’m looking forward to that.”
With four-time champion Djokovic and Alcaraz both eliminated, fifth-seeded Medvedev is the only former champion left in the draw.
The Russian faces 34th-ranked Borges in a rematch of their round of 16 clash at the Australian Open this season.
Medvedev is aiming to reach the quarter-finals in New York for the fifth time in the last six years.
– Meet the Aussie –
If Sinner and Medvedev go through with their assignments, they will meet in what would be their fourth meeting of 2024.
Sinner came back from two sets to love to defeat the mercurial Medvedev in the Australian Open final and came out on top in the semi-finals in Miami.
Medvedev avenged those losses at Wimbledon in a five-set quarterfinal win.
Borges, 27, is looking to defeat a top 10 player for the first time and become the first Portuguese man to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final in the Open era.
Swiatek will play her 100th Grand Slam match when she meets 16th seed Samsonova who is chasing a first place in the last eight at the Slams.
Poland’s Swiatek holds a 3-0 advantage over Samsonova, but the 25-year-old Russian will be buoyed by reaching the quarter-finals of both WTA 1000 events in Toronto and Cincinnati on the eve of the US Open.
If Swiatek wins, she will take on American sixth seed Jessica Pegula who made the last eight for the second time with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Russia’s Diana Shnaider.
Caroline Wozniacki, runner-up to Serena Williams in 2014, faces Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia.
The winner of that clash will face 2023 semi-finalist Karolina Muchova, who knocked out French Open and Wimbledon runner-up Jasmine Paolini, the fifth seed, 6-3, 6-3.
The 52nd-ranked Muchova, who only returned to the tour in June after 10 months out with a wrist injury, has yet to drop a set at the tournament and eliminated two-time champion Naomi Osaka in the second round.
Monday’s men’s round of 16 is completed by Britain’s Jack Draper taking on unseeded Tomas Machac of the Czech Republic while Alex de Minaur and Jordan Thompson meet in an all-Australian duel.
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