Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz stay on target to satisfy within the Qatar Open ultimate after each claimed straight-set wins on Wednesday.
World quantity two Sinner beat Australia’s Alexei Popyrin 6-3 7-5 to achieve the quarter-finals in Doha, earlier than Alcaraz received 6-2 7-5 towards France’s Valentin Royer.
The pair met in six finals final yr, three of them at Grand Slams, with world primary Alcaraz successful the French and US Opens.
The 22-year-old Spaniard will subsequent face Karen Khachanov, who beat Marton Fucsovics 6-2 4-6 6-4.
Sixth seed Jakub Mensik breezed previous Zhang Zhizhen 6-3 6-2 to arrange a last-eight assembly with Sinner, who has now reached a minimum of the quarter-finals in 28 of his previous 30 tournaments, stretching again to the 2023 ATP Finals in Turin.
The 24-year-old Italian, who lifted final yr’s Australian Open and Wimbledon titles, has now received 22 of his previous 23 matches. His solely defeat got here towards Novak Djokovic within the Australian Open semi-finals final month.
In the meantime, Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas upset world quantity 11 Daniil Medvedev 6-3 6-4 in Doha to e-book a conflict with fifth seed Andrey Rublev, who beat Fabian Marozsan 6-2 6-4.
The unseeded Frenchman Arthur Fils and Czech Jiri Lehecka, seeded eighth, full the quarter-final line-up having additionally claimed snug victories.
