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Rome Masters 1000: Francisco Cerúndolo goes for another epic victory against Casper Ruud

2023-05-17T18:28:20.161Z

Highlights: Francisco Cerúndolo faces the Norwegian Casper Ruud in the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 of Rome. The Argentine, 24, is on a roll at the Foro Italico, with great performances. He started with victories over China's Yibing Wu (57th) and France's Gregoire Barrere (63rd) On Tuesday, he beat Italian Jannik Sinner, world number eight, in a match in which he played high-level tennis.


The Argentine tennis player comes from eliminating the local Jannick Sinner and wants to get into the top four in the Foro Italico. Broadcast ESPN3.


Francisco Cerúndolo wants to extend his enormous moment in the Masters 1000 of Rome, which was left on Wednesday without its top favorite after the fall of the Serbian Novak Djokovic against the Danish Holger Rune. The porteño, 31st in the ranking, faces the Norwegian Casper Ruud, fourth in the world, with the aim of getting into the semifinals of the Italian tournament for the first time, in a match televised by ESPN3.

The Argentine, 24, is on a roll at the Foro Italico, with great performances. He started with victories over China's Yibing Wu (57th) and France's Gregoire Barrere (63rd). And on Tuesday, he beat Italian Jannik Sinner, world number eight, in a match in which he played high-level tennis.

Cerúndolo has a good chance against Ruud, whom he beat twice, both in brick dust: last year in the knockout stages of Bastad, a contest in which he won his first and so far only ATP title, and last April in the Conde de Godó, in Barcelona, also in that instance. The Norwegian took the other duel they played, in the semifinals of the 1000 Miami Masters 2022, on hard surface.

Cerúndolo gave one of the blows of the tournament against the local, Jannick Sinner. Photo: Andreas SOLARO / AFP).

In the case of winning, "Fran" Cerúndolo will find himself in the semis with the Danish ascendant Rune (with only 20 years he is already seventh in the ranking), who eliminated Djokovic, number one, after beating him 6-2, 4-6 and 6-2 after two and a quarter hours of play, in an intense match that suffered an interruption due to rain.

The 35-year-old Serb won the Rome Masters 1000 six times, the first in 2008 and the last last year, but this time he could not with Rune, who eliminated him again as happened last year in the final of the Masters 1000 in Paris.

The quarterfinals will be completed this Thursday with two matches. The Russian Daniil Medvedev (3rd of the ATP) will clash with the German Yannick Hanfmann (101st and coming from the qualy) and the Croatian Borna Coric (16th) will go against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (5th).

Novak Djokovic fell to Holger Rune and is already focused on what is coming, Roland Garros. Photo: AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia.

In the quarterfinals of the women's draw, Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko, seeded 20th, beat Spain's Paula Badosa 6-2, 4-6, 3-6. Not before 15.30 in Argentina, the Polish Iga Swiatek, number one in the world, will face the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (6th).

The Rome tournament, which is played in parallel between the ATP and the WTA, will distribute prizes for 8,637,966 euros and throughout its history had four Argentine tennis players as champions.

Those who lifted the trophy in the Italian capital were Guillermo Vilas in the 1980 edition, José Luis Clerc was crowned in 1981 and Alberto "Luli" Mancini in 1989. However, the most outstanding of the Argentines was Gabriela Sabatini, who was crowned at the Foro Italico on four occasions: 1988, 1989, 1991 and 1992.

With information from Télam

Source: clarin

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