Sascha’s sweet win

Olympic champion Alexander Zverev nicknamed Sascha struck gold at the ATP Cincinnati Masters on Wednesday with his first victory at the US Open tuneup event in seven attemptsThe German has been deep in a rut from his first appearance in 2015 at the Midwest US venue exiting in the first round every time But that all changed as Zverev celebrated success with a 76 73 62 win over South African Lloyd Harris to break his duckSpecial feelingldquoIrsquom happy where Irsquom at and Irsquom happy to get my first win in seven years hererdquo he said ldquoItrsquos obviously a great start to the weekrdquo The breakthrough victory was the seventh in a row for the 24yearold ldquoWhen I came on court and they said Olympic gold medalist it did give me goosebumpsrdquo Zverev said ldquoIt made me a little nervous at the beginning of the match I have to say because it is a special feelingrdquo Zverev now goes up against Argentine Guido Pella a winner over Italyrsquos Fabio Fognini 61 75Andy Murray returns to Hubert Hurkacz during his second round matchTsitsipas plays SonegoNumber two seed Stefanos Tsitsipas fought off Sebastian Korda for a 76 75 63 victory that took the Toronto semifinalist into the third round The Greek won on his second match point as Korda drove a forehand long after 97 minutes Tsitsipas next plays Italyrsquos Lorenzo Sonego who beat American Tommy Paul 76 119 62Norwayrsquos eighthseeded Casper Ruud outaced American Reilly Opelka 21 to 17 on his way to a 67 57 60 76 74 victoryAndy Murrayrsquos wild card run ended with a 76 74 63 loss to Polandrsquos Hubert Hurkacz The Scotsman who has been struggling to reestablish himself on tour after his latest injurymdasha groin problemmdashlost the secondround contest in one and threequarter hours to the player who knocked Roger Federer out of Wimbledon ldquoThis week was fairly positive I played much better than at Wimbledon and the grass seasonrdquo he saidKhachanov oustedOlympic silver medallist Karen Khachanov joined Murrray in defeat as the Russian exited 67 57 63 64 to Canadarsquos 12thseeded Felix AugerAliassime who will face Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini for a quarterfinal placeNaomi OsakaOsaka beats GauffMeanwhile Japanrsquos Naomi Osaka battled back to take a 46 63 64 victory over American Coco Gauff on Wednesday and advance into the third round of the WTA Cincinnati Masters ldquoThe first set was an experimentrdquo Osaka said ldquoI was trying to see what was going on as Irsquove not played that many matches ldquoI was just examining here and trying to stay calm trying to keep a level headrdquo Osaka said victory ldquomeans a lot to me especially coming off Tokyo Shersquos not my favourite to playrdquoAlso Read Its the summer of John Cena in WWEThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliabilitsy and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever