Or maybe Jannik Sinner just likes playing against Casper Ruud. Whatever it was, the top-ranked Sinner cranked up his level to near perfection at times in a 6-0, 6-1 dismantling of Ruud in the Italian Open quarterfinals — after Sinner was granted an audience with the new tennis-playing pope just down the road at the Vatican.

Italy’s tennis boom is in full force at the Foro Italico. Top-ranked Jannik Sinner hasn’t dropped a set at the Italian Open in his return from a three-month doping ban. Lorenzo Musetti is into the semifinals.

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