Sinner’s Morning Mood! World No. 1 Sinks Norrie For Madrid Qf Spot

Jannik Sinner brought a business-like demeanour to court early on Tuesday to the Mutua Madrid Open. The No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings kick-started Day 7 at the ATP Master 1000 event with a largely commanding fourth-round triumph against Cameron Norrie.

Sinner and Norrie stepped onto Manolo Santana Stadium shortly after 11 a.m. local time in the Spanish capital and the Italian needed 87 minutes to prevail 6-2, 7-5 in the pair’s maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head clash. With his triumph, the 24-year-old earned his 20th consecutive tour-level win, while he is now on a 25-match winning streak at Masters 1000 level.

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“Quite unusual for me,” Sinner said. “I don’t know the last time I played at 11, but for me it doesn’t matter what time. I try to do my best… We try to adapt ourselves, our bodies and our minds. From my side, it was a good performance today.”

Sinner will now prepare for a quarter-final clash against fast-rising #NextGenATP home star Rafael Jodar or Vit Kopriva. Having triumphed in Paris last November and in Indian Wells, Miami and Monte-Carlo this year, he is bidding to become the first player to win five consecutive Masters 1000 crowns.

Even by his own high standards, Sinner appeared intensely focused throughout the first three-quarters of the match against Norrie, particularly in a first set in which he did not face a break point. The only drop in the Italian’s level came when he was a break up at 3-2 in the second set, when he delivered an uncharacteristically sloppy service game to help Norrie regain a foothold in the match.

Having worked his way back into the match, however, Norrie soon unmined his good work when serving at 5-5. He produced a double fault at 15/30 and, although he saved two break points from there, he was unable to deny Sinner on a third. With that, the Italian served out the match to become the second man in history to win his first 20 Masters 1000 matches of the season, after Novak Djokovic in 2011 and 2015.

“We know each other quite well. We practised a lot together in the past tournaments also, so we both kind of knew what to expect,” Sinner said on facing Norrie for the first time. “I felt like I was serving quite well today in the important moments.

“This surface, it’s very different to all the other surfaces, so it’s quite tough to get the right feedback. So sometimes you feel like you are not playing your best, but from the outside it seems that you are, and sometimes it is also the opposite. But I’m very happy to be here in the quarters again.”