Australian Open: Sinner breezes into third round

Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 4 seed, won against Dutch qualifier Jesper De Jong 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 to move into the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday night.

Sinner, ranked No 4, will face the winner of the match between Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan and Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 26 seed, next.

Ahead of his victory, the 22-year-old Italian defeated Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp (6-4, 7-5, 6-3).

De Jong, ranked No 161, edged out Argentinian Pedro Cachin (4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4) in the previous round.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):

• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Sumit Nagal vs. Juncheng Shang
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Tommy Paul vs. Jack Draper
• Max Purcell vs. Casper Ruud
• Cameron Norrie vs. Giulio Zeppieri
• Alex Michelsen vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Alexander Zverev vs. Lukas Klein
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Hugo Grenier
• Nuno Borges vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Jakub Mensik vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Ugo Humbert vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Arthur Fils vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Holger Rune vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Novak Djokovic vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Jordan Thompson vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Sebastian Korda vs. Quentin Halys
• Frances Tiafoe vs. Tomas Machac
• Gael Monfils vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Andrey Rublev
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Karen Khachanov
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Luca Van Assche
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Francisco Cerundolo
• Taylor Fritz vs. Hugo Gaston
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Jaume Munar
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Ben Shelton
• Pavel Kotov vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Sebastian Baez
• Alex De Minaur vs. Matteo Arnaldi: wednesday