{"id":8298,"date":"2026-02-17T01:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/sinner-returns-with-comfortable-win-in-qatar\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:20:02","slug":"sinner-returns-with-comfortable-win-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/sinner-returns-with-comfortable-win-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner returns with comfortable win in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByBen CollinsBBC Sport journalist<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published35 minutes ago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#comments\">10 Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>World number two Jannik Sinner enjoyed a comfortable victory in his first match since losing to Novak Djokovic in the <a href=\"\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/clyn9l0zvnpo\">Australian Open semi-finals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Italian claimed a straight-set win over the Czech Republic&#x27;s Tomas Machac at the Qatar Open in Doha on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner won 6-1 6-4 &#8211; wrapping up the first set in 27 minutes &#8211; and was then interviewed by former England footballer Rio Ferdinand.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner will face Australia&#x27;s Alexei Popyrin in the last 16, with the world number 53 having beaten local favourite Mubarak Shannan Zayid 6-0 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth seed Jakub Mensik is also through to the last 16 having come from behind to beat Great Britain&#x27;s Jan Choinski.<\/p>\n<p>After losing a first-set tie-break to the world number 124, the Czech number one recovered to win 6-7 (6-8) 6-2 6-4.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/tennis\">Tennis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cedz8v9dggwo\">\n<p>Pinnington Jones&#x27; dream Dallas run ended by Cilic<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published2 days ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/tennis\/scores-and-schedule\">\n<p>Live scores, results and order of play<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/articles\/cl5q9dk9jl3o\">\n<p>Get tennis news sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published16 August 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinner returns with comfortable win in QatarImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Jannik Sinner reached all four Grand Slam finals last year, winning the Australian Open and WimbledonByBen CollinsB&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}