Jannik Sinner braved blustery conditions and a strong charge from Hubert Hurkacz to seal a third-round victory on Thursday at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.
The seventh-seeded Italian trailed Hurkacz by a set and a break at 3-6, 1-2 but rallied to a 3-6, 7-6(6), 6-1 triumph at the clay-court ATP Masters 1000 event. Even after recovering his early deficit in the second set, Sinner was on the brink of defeat when trailing 5/6 in the second-set tie-break. Yet he reeled off three points in a row to save the match point and clinch the second set before dominating the decider on Court Rainier III.
Sinner has now reached the quarter-final stage at six of the seven events he has played this season. His quarter-final opponent in the Principality will be World No. 1 Novak Djokovic or Lorenzo Musetti.
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