Jannik Sinner v Alexander Bublik live: US Open latest score and updates from fourth-round match

Alexander Bublik also said to Jannik Sinner:

“That was so good. I’m not so bad, but you’re the GOAT”.

“We know each other very well. We had some tough battles. Especially this year. He just said congrats and wished me all the best. He had a very tough match in the last match. Today he didn’t serve as well as he usually serves. I broke him very early in every set which gave me the confidence to serve a bit better. I’m very very happy.”

An all-Italian clash in the quarter-finals!

Lorenzo Musetti will be playing his first US Open quarter-final against the defending champion.

Alexander Bublik almost falls into Jannik Sinner’s arms at the net and says something that makes the World No 1 laugh.

That can’t have been easy for Bublik but he is playing the World No 1, who on this kind of form looks unstoppable.

As if to sum up one of the most one-sided US Open fourth round matches of all time, Alexander Bublik double-faults when facing match point.

Jannik Sinner extends his winning run at the hard-court grand slams to 25 matches, and that must be one of the quickest.

Just 81 minutes required to beat a player who had won 11 matches in a row before tonight, and who had beat him in their last match!

Bublik cracks a couple of quickfire returns and lands them for winners! He even gets a look at break point but Sinner saves with the thumping wide serve.

Bublik almost raises the roof as he saves three break points to prevent what surely would have been a bagel set and 6-1 6-1 6-0 defeat.

Bublik raises his arm and the crowd erupts as he wins the opening point against the Sinner serve.

Sinner allows no more celebration as he again gets up to the short ball to put away the forehand winner.

A couple of scintillating dashes from Sinner to get up to the Bublik ball and put away a winners, which gives the crowd something to cheer about.

We must be heading to one of the quickest ever US Open wins in the men’s singles.

More head-shaking from Bublik, as if he’s in disbelief that the guy on the other side of the net is even human, as Sinner thumps an ace to hold to love.