20 seeds of Argentina Francisco Cerundolo rejected Alexander Zverev 7-5, 6-3 on Tuesday to move to the quarterfinals of Madrid Open.
Cerundolo defeated Zverev at 16 rounds at this ATP Masters 1000 event for the second year in a row. At the beginning of this season, 3-0 against Zverev, including the quarter-final victory in Buenos Aires.
“I’m so happy because I know you like to play here. When I beat him last year, Cer Cerundolo said after the match. “He’s an amazing player. I have a great relationship with him, I’m very happy to get another win and to be again in the quarter -finals.”
Cerundolo won 50 (71.4 percent) of a total of 70 service scores and was 7 to 7 in the network points. Zverev directed only six winners with 23 forced mistakes.
After Zverev finished the seven -game win series, Cerundolo’s next task was in a nine -game winning series with an appointment for ATP 1000 in Miami last month. 22 seeds will be confronted with Jakub Mentik.
Mentik, Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik 6-3, 6-2 in 16 matches only 56 minutes burned. Bublik, Facetly to the camera, “Do you remember that tennis is easy?
In the same region of the draw, the seed number 9 from Russia Daniil Medvedev, American No. 31 Brandon Nakashima exceeded 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Medvedev has reached the quarter finals and will face the winner between Taylor Fritz number 3 from the United States and Casper Ruud number 14 from Norway. Fritz and Ruud were the last male match in Docket on Tuesday.
The rest of the matches on Tuesday were 32 tour, because the tournament was caught on Monday after a country’s country’s power outage event was interrupted.
Seed 5 Jack Draper, rival, Seed 30 Italy Matteo Berrettiini, Draper retired after the first 7-6.
Australian Sixth Seed Alex de Minaur Canada No. 29 Denis Shapovalov defeated 6-3, 7-6 (3), while Lorenzo Musetti number 10 from Italy filled Stefanos Tssitsipas from Greece 7-5, 7-6 (3).
Two Americans proceeded in 16 rounds.
Gabriel Diallo, who lost the Canadian lucky, survived the Great Britain’s Cameron Norrie 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.
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