Sinner sails into 2nd week without dropping serve

As good arsenic Jannik Sinner is playing astatine Wimbledon, helium doesn't look to request overmuch successful the mode of help. Still, helium got immoderate Saturday erstwhile his opponent, Pedro Martinez, was dealing with a problematic enarthrosis that compromised his serve.

The No. 1-ranked Sinner has dropped a full of 17 games truthful far, made his mode to the 4th circular for the seventh consecutive Grand Slam tourney -- he's collected 3 specified trophies successful that span -- and ne'er was genuinely successful occupation during a 6-1, 6-3, 6-1 triumph implicit No. 52 Martinez.

"We each saw that helium was struggling," Sinner said, past noted astir his ain form: "First week couldn't person gone better."

Sinner has yet to driblet service crossed his opening 3 matches, and the 17 games helium has conceded are the fewest by immoderate men's No. 1 effect astatine Wimbledon to marque the 2nd week since the Open epoch began successful 1968. He's the 2nd antheral wide to cede conscionable 17 games done 3 completed matches, the different being Jan Kodes, who ended up losing successful the semifinals successful 1972.

There's been zero motion of immoderate benignant of inability connected Sinner's portion to determination past past month's French Open final, which helium mislaid to Carlos Alcaraz successful 5 sets contempt taking the archetypal 2 and holding 3 title points.

Against Martinez, Sinner went up 5-0 aft 20 minutes. During that agelong of 29 points, Martinez managed conscionable 1 winner, portion Sinner accumulated 10.

That's erstwhile Martinez took a aesculapian timeout, and a trainer massaged the backmost of his close shoulder. The Spaniard was delivering archetypal serves arsenic dilatory arsenic 76 mph, compared with Sinner's precocious of 133 mph.

That facet of Martinez's crippled improved incrementally, but the only, ever-so-brief, infinitesimal of intrigue astatine Centre Court came successful the 2nd set, astir 75 minutes in, with Sinner up a interruption and serving astatine 4-3. That's wherever Martinez managed to accrue his archetypal 4 interruption points of the match.

Sinner stayed arsenic calm arsenic tin beryllium -- "I don't deliberation Sinner's changed expressions erstwhile successful this match," John McEnroe observed connected BBC's telecast -- and erased each 4 of those chances, held for 5-3, past broke to extremity the set.

Soon enough, Sinner -- doubly an Australian Open champion, erstwhile a US Open champion and a 2023 semifinalist astatine Wimbledon -- was heading into a contention Monday against Grigor Dimitrov oregon Sebastian Ofner, whose lucifer was delayed by rainfall successful the 2nd set.

Sinner volition beryllium making his 17th fourth-round quality successful a Slam, passing Nicola Pietrangeli for the astir by an Italian antheral successful tennis history

In different men's singles results Saturday, No. 22 Flavio Cobolli earned his debut travel to a major's circular of 16 by defeating No. 15 Jakub Mensik 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.

ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.