Tennis: Rune wins the “new generation” duel against Shelton

After Argentina and Brazil, place in Mexico.

Tonight began the ATP 500 tournament in Acapulco.

Several headliners of the circuit like Ruud, Fritz, Rune, Tiafoe or Berrettini appear in the table.

Carlos Alcaraz is still in the tournament draw, despite his recent leg injury against Norrie in the Rio tournament final.

The main match of this night opposed Ben Shelton (20 years old and 41st in the world) to Holger Rune (19 years old and 10th in the world).

It passes for Rune and Fritz, Ruud in great difficulty

In the duel of “

”, it is finally the Dane Rune who wins.

Young Ben Shelton, who left his native United States for the first time at the last Australian Open, lost in three sets (7-6, 4-6, 2-6).

Earlier in the evening, Taylor Fritz, recent world number 5, won the American-American duel against his compatriot John Isner, also in three sets (3-6, 6-3, 6-4).

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Casper Ruud (4th), finalist at Roland-Garros last year, is off to a decidedly bad start to his new season.

Prematurely eliminated in the second round of the Australian Open last month, the Norwegian was very scared this time against the Argentinian Andreozzi (342nd).

Casper Ruud fought a big battle to defeat his opponent in the tie-break, in just under 3 hours of play.

Among the other results of the night, the Canadian Shapovalov (30th) prevailed against Kecmanovic (31st) in three sets and the American Tiafoe (15th) defeated the Japanese Nishioka (34th) in two sets.