The Italian has won three of the past four majors, having followed last year’s US Open success with victories at January’s Australian Open and at Wimbledon last month.<\/p>\n
Sinner’s only Grand Slam loss so far this year was to Spaniard Alcaraz in an epic French Open final in June.<\/p>\n
“I have amazing memories,” said Sinner, when asked about returning to Flushing Meadows as defending champion.<\/p>\n
“Every year is different and you come here starting this tournament hopefully in the best possible way, which I have done.<\/p>\n
“Coming back to a Grand Slam, where the emotions are still running – I’m very happy to come back here and compete against the best players in the world.”<\/p>\n
Sinner’s second-round opponent will be Australia’s world number 36 Alexei Popyrin, who defeated Emil Ruusuvuori of Finland in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian has won three of the past four majors, having followed last year’s US Open success with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-177978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115097076000216028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}