{"id":322076,"date":"2025-08-06T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322076\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:52:09","slug":"jannik-sinner-and-carlos-alcaraz-pulled-apart-as-cincinnati-draw-suits-tennis-icons-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322076\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz pulled apart as Cincinnati draw suits tennis icons | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sinner, 23, isn\u2019t likely to be troubled first up. He\u2019s in line to face Czech player V\u00edt Kopriva, providing the world No.80 can beat a qualifier in his first-round match.<\/p>\n

It is not until the last-16 that things potentially get tricky for the Italian, where he is in line to play 13th seed Tommy Paul. Fourth seed Taylor Fritz<\/a> is also on his side of the draw, although the pair cannot meet until the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

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Alcaraz will return against the winner of Italian Mattia Bellucci or Ukraine<\/a>\u2019s Damir Dzumhur. The latter was ranked 18th some seven years ago, but both men now lie outside the world\u2019s top 50.<\/p>\n

If he wants to gain a measure of revenge on Sinner, the 22-year-old will need to overcome Alexander Zverev<\/a> if the two rivals make the semi-final stage. The Spaniard won the title in Cincinnati 2023, before Sinner prevailed 12 months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinner, 23, isn\u2019t likely to be troubled first up. He\u2019s in line to face Czech player V\u00edt Kopriva,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[116542,6359,107663,116541,4718,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alcaraz-sinner","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-cincinnati-open","11":"tag-cincinnati-open-draw","12":"tag-jannik-sinner","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114980975114819396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}