Jannik Sinner provided one of his finest performances on the ATP Tour in the Rome Masters quarter-final. The home favorite toppled world no. 7 Casper Ruud 6-0, 6-1 in 64 minutes to march into the last four.

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

World No.1 Jannik Sinner showed his ruthless side as he comfortably dispatched recently crowned Madrid Open champion, Casper Ruud, in less than an hour.