{"id":49609,"date":"2025-05-31T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=49609"},"modified":"2025-05-31T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:23:16","slug":"world-number-one-sinner-obliterates-lehecka-to-reach-french-open-fourth-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/world-number-one-sinner-obliterates-lehecka-to-reach-french-open-fourth-round\/","title":{"rendered":"World Number One Sinner Obliterates Lehecka to Reach French Open Fourth Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Jannik Sinner delivered a flawless performance to pulverise Czech Jiri Lehecka 6-0 6-1 6-2 in little more than 90 minutes on Saturday, to burst into the French Open fourth round and issue a ominous warning to other title contenders.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Italian, who returned to tennis in May after a three-month-doping ban, won the first 11 games in a row, and has so far found no resistance en route to the last 16, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>He has yet to drop a set in his second tournament back, after reaching the final in Rome earlier in the month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today I was playing really, really well,&#8221; Sinner said. &#8220;He was serving very well and brave. But I am very happy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My coach had (his) birthday yesterday and usually when he has birthday I don&#8217;t play good. Luckily I was not playing yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This morning I said to my team I feel well,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I warmed up feeling really well, trying to go on court with a good focus. My team gave me the right tactics. It is a combination also being happy on court.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Jannik Sinner delivered a flawless performance to pulverise Czech Jiri Lehecka 6-0 6-1 6-2 in little more than 90 minutes on Saturday, to burst into the French Open fourth round and issue a ominous warning to other title contenders. The 23-year-old Italian, who returned to tennis in May after a three-month-doping ban, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49612,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49609\/revisions\/49612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}