No alarm for Sinner, Swiatek as top seeds ease into quarter-finals

Top seeds Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek continued to blaze a trail through the U.S. Open draws on Monday, easing into the quarter-finals of a tournament marked by almost daily upsets with a minimum of fuss.

Sinner disappointed a partisan crowd with a 7-6(3) 7-6(5) 6-1 win over Tommy Paul in an entertaining fourth-round tie after Swiatek had beaten Liudmila Samsonova 6-4 6-1 in a more muted atmosphere on the main Arthur Ashe Stadium showcourt.

Italian Sinner barely got a look...