World No 1 takes just 81 minutes to complete win
Italian has 25 straight wins at hard-court grand slams
Jannik Sinner claimed his quickest grand slam victory with a brutal destruction of Alexander Bublik in the fourth round of the US Open.
The world No 1 had looked a little vulnerable in the previous round, when he dropped his first set of the tournament to Denis Shapovalov, but he needed just an hour and 21 minutes to race to a 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 win against Bublik.
The unpredictable Kazakh is the only player other than Carlos Alcaraz to have beaten Sinner in the last 12 months, doing so on grass in Halle. In his pre-match interview Bublik said his goal was not to lose his first service game, but he did just that and did not help himself with 13 double faults – including one featuring two underarm serves in the first set – as he dropped serve a further seven times. There were also far too many errors off the ground from Bublik, who at least raised his level in the third set only for Sinner to reply with interest.
