Top-seeded Jannik Sinner advances to 4th round of Wimbledon

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· Posted: Jul 05, 2025 11:08 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

As good arsenic Jannik Sinner is playing astatine Wimbledon, helium doesn't look to request overmuch successful the mode of help. Still, helium got immoderate Saturday erstwhile his opponent, Pedro Martinez, was dealing with a problematic enarthrosis and often enactment successful archetypal serves astatine so-so speeds.

The No. 1-ranked Sinner has dropped a full of 17 games truthful far, made his mode to the 4th circular for the seventh consecutive Grand Slam tourney — he's collected 3 specified trophies successful that span — and ne'er was genuinely successful occupation during a 6-1, 6-3, 6-1 triumph implicit No. 52 Martinez.

"We each saw that helium was struggling," Sinner said, past noted astir his ain form: "First week couldn't person gone better."

There's been zero motion of immoderate benignant of inability to determination past past month's French Open final, which Sinner mislaid to Carlos Alcaraz successful 5 sets contempt taking the archetypal 2 and holding 3 title points.

Against Martinez, Sinner — who returned successful May from a three-month doping suspension — went up 5-0 aft 20 minutes. During that agelong of 29 points, Martinez managed conscionable 1 winner, portion Sinner accumulated 10.

That's erstwhile Martinez took a aesculapian timeout, and a trainer massaged the backmost of his close shoulder. The Spaniard was delivering archetypal serves arsenic dilatory arsenic 76 mph, compared with Sinner's precocious of 133 mph.

That facet of Martinez's crippled improved incrementally, but the only, ever-so-brief, infinitesimal of intrigue astatine Centre Court came successful the 2nd set, astir 75 minutes in, with Sinner up a interruption and serving astatine 4-3. That's wherever Martinez managed to accrue his archetypal 4 interruption points of the match.

Sinner stayed arsenic calm arsenic tin beryllium — "I don't deliberation Sinner's changed expressions erstwhile successful this match," John McEnroe observed connected BBC's telecast — and erased each 4 of those chances, held for 5-3, past broke to extremity the set.

Soon enough, Sinner — doubly an Australian Open champion, erstwhile a U.S. Open champion and a 2023 semifinalist astatine Wimbledon — was heading into a contention Monday against Grigor Dimitrov oregon Sebastian Ofner, whose lucifer was delayed by rainfall successful the 2nd set.

What other happened Saturday astatine Wimbledon?

No. 11 Elena Rybakina, the 2022 champion, was ousted successful the 3rd circular by No. 23 Clara Tauson by a 7-6 (6), 6-3 score, yet different exit from a precocious seed.

No. 7 Mirra Andreeva, an 18-year-old Russian, moved into Week 2 with a 6-1, 6-3 triumph implicit Hailey Baptiste of the United States. Andreeva volition look defending champion Barbora Krejcikova oregon Emma Navarro next.

Another fourth-round matchup was acceptable up erstwhile No. 19 Liudmila Samsonova and Jessica Bouzas Maneiro advanced. Bouzas Maneiro, who defeated 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova successful past year's archetypal round, was a 6-1, 2-6, 6-3 victor implicit Dayana Yastremska, who eliminated No. 2 Coco Gauff successful this year's archetypal round.

No. 22 Flavio Cobolli earned his debut travel to a major's circular of 16 by defeating No. 15 Jakub Mensik 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.

Gabriela Dabrowski, the lone Canadian inactive competing astatine Wimbledon, competes in mixed doubles with Croatia's Nikola Mektić later Saturday.

The duo will face Germany's Laura Siegemund and France's Édouard Roger-Vasselin connected Saturday.

Sunday's matchups astatine the All England Club

No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, coming disconnected a riveting triumph against Emma Raducanu, returns to Centre Court to look No. 24 Elise Mertens arsenic the 4th circular begins.

Sunday's past scheduled lucifer successful the main stadium features two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz against No. 14 Andrey Rublev.

Over astatine No. 1 Court, 2024 U.S. Open runner-up Taylor Fritz of the United States, the No. 5 seed, begins play astatine 1 p.m. section clip (8 a.m. ET) against unseeded Jordan Thompson of Australia.

Dabrowski and New Zealand spouse Erin Routliffe will play their third circular of the women's doubles gully connected Sunday.

The No. 2 seeds are looking to adhd a 2nd Grand Slam rubric aft winning the 2023 U.S. Open. Routliffe, who grew up adjacent Toronto and lives successful Montreal, represents her autochthonal New Zealand internationally.

The duo besides captured the WTA Finals rubric successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, past November.