Debut on velvet for Jannik Sinner at the Master 1000 in Monte Carlo . The South Tyrolean tennis player easily beat the American Sebastian Korda with a score of 6-1, 6-2 .
In the round of 16 the number 2 in the ranking will face the German Jan-Lennard Struff , number 25 in the world.
Novak Djokovic is also in the round of 16, while Carlos Alcaraz withdrew due to an arm problem.
The other Italians: Lorenzo Musetti, who will face the Serbian number 1 in the world, and Lorenzo Sonego, who will face the Frenchman Humbert, also reached the round of 16 . Matteo Berrettini was immediately out: arriving exhausted after the victory in Marrakech, the Roman lost in two easy sets to Kecmanovic.
(Unioneonline/L)