Sinner shines after the deluge: Mannarino knocked out and ends up in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati (Ohio), August 13, 2025 – Sinner defeats the man who tried to steal time. The match ends with a 6-4, 7-6 victory for Mannarino , thirty-seven years old – one of the oldest tennis players ever to reach this far in Cincinnati – and a game of anticipation designed to cut off even the most powerful and angled trajectories.

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Once again, Jannik found himself having to tame the unusual left-hander , the one who for consistency players and "scorers" is the opponent they never face. But the training he immediately sought after after his somewhat lackluster performance against Gabriel Diallo allowed the South Tyrolean to start off strong: a perfect service game and a break in the third game, thanks in particular to a high center ball, a difficult one for the Frenchman to master, who anticipated the balls that bounced like on a billiards table.

Little time to think and French imagination cause Jannik to make too many errors , especially on the forehand side when he finds himself returning weightless balls or sudden flashes of serve from the Frenchman, who in the sixth game also scores three aces in a row, cancelling break points.

Sinner still struggles a bit with the first serve from time to time, but the South Tyrolean's serve performance remains effective: he doesn't concede more than two service points to his opponent on his service games. A break lead is enough to close out the first set.

Mannarino continues to push on angled trajectories , especially at bat, cutting Jannik off the field with a series of winning serves.

Until the bad weather, which promptly ruined the party for fans and players, with both players forced to return to the locker rooms. The match was suspended for nearly three hours, with Sinner 's team caught on camera playing cards to pass the time.

The second half saw the Frenchman reinvigorated . And the match solidly followed the serve rule, even though Jannik seemed a bit sloppy on returns , thus making things easier for Mannarino. However, the South Tyrolean's serving percentage improved, having only hit 44 percent of his first serves in the first set. At 5-all, the Italian missed three break points, the fourth being the good one, and sent the 23-year-old from Sesto Pusteria serving for the match. At 30-0, Sinner seemed to have the match in the bag, but two errors put the Frenchman back in the game , who came to the net, then returned well to get back to 6-all. A last-gasp tie-break followed, with Jannik only managing to break the deadlock at 5-3, but this time it was the one to secure a spot in the quarterfinals.