the danish Holger Rune showed his status as the first seed at the Munich tennis tournament with a solvent victory over German Yannick Hanfmann and will face Chilean Cristian Garin in the quarterfinals, who earned a victory of merit against sixth-seeded Italian Lorenzo Sonego.
It was a duel between two champions of the event. Rune is the current winner, winner of the 2022 German tournament. Garín is in 2019 after defeating the Italian Matteo Berrettini.
Garín, 86 in the ATP ranking, has never met Lorenzo Sonego. The 26-year-old tennis player from Santiago defeated the transalpine player 6-3, 7-6(3) after one hour and 48 minutes.
Garín grows his game when he competes on clay. It showed in Munich where he added his second victory and met the first seed, the young Holger Rune, a recent finalist in Monte Carlo, who acted with a solvent victory over the German Yannick Hanfmann 6-3 and 6-4 .
The day was marked by the elimination of the local idol, Alexander Zverevtwo-time tournament winner falling to Australian Christopher O’Connell 7-6(2) and 6-4.
The player from Hamburg who had a good season on clay last year when he reached the final of the Masters 1000 Madrid and the semifinals of Roland Garros, where he was seriously injured, lost to a tennis player ranked 82 ranking in the ATP ranking and the one he won a few months ago, in Dubai.
O’Connell won in one hour and 58 minutes and will meet Italian Flavio Cobolli in the quarterfinals, coming off the previous stage, beating German Oscar Otte in three sets 6-0, 3-6 and 6-3.
He also followed his favorite condition, although his favorite surface, the American, was not dirt Taylor Fritz, second seed, needed three sets against Hungarian Marton Fucsovics to develop in the frame. The North American came back to win 4-6, 6-3 and 6-3 and will play the winner of the clash that will complete the day between Swiss Marc Andrea Huesler, eighth, and Austrian Dominic Thiem.
In addition, during the session the American Marcos Giron defeated the Swiss Alexander Ritschard (4-6, 6-3 and 6-3) and will face the Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulp, fourth seed, who won 6-2 and 6- 0 to Russian Aslan Karatsev who previously had to complete his first round duel with German Daniel Altmaier postponed from Wednesday due to rain and in which he rallied 4-6, 7-6 (2) and 6-2.
Source: La Verdad
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