Davidovich and Rune met in a colorful 3rd round in Madrid

He Mutua Madrid is open will have at least a 3rd round match of many carats, very interesting because of the current game of its young protagonists, the Spaniards Alexander Davidovich23 years old and world number 35, and the Danish Holger Rune, 19 and 7th in the ranking. Both will cross the racket for the first time on the ATP circuit.

BACK-TO-BACK deciding tiebreak win 🥵@holgerrune2003 went through a dramatic battle with Bublik 6-1 4-6 7-6(9) in his Madrid opener!#MMOpen pic.twitter.com/uT86gQDxOG

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Davidovich took the Spanish derby match Albert Ramos (6-3, 6-4 in 1h.32′) and against Rune he will try to reach the round of 16 for the first time in his career Masters 1,000 in clay Madrid.

The Dane also debuted with success in the Magic Box Kazakh is new alexander bublik (6-1, 4-6, 7-6 in 2h.04′) in a match that was resolved in the tiebreak of the third set by 9-7: Rune had the first three ‘match-balls’, but not took advantage of them and then saved a match point in favor of Bublik, who also did not seal it and finally surrendered on the fifth ‘match-ball’.

Rune secured match points for the second game in a row as he neutralized four against the Dutchman on Sunday Apothecary Van de Zandschulp (6-4, 1-6, 7-6) to reaffirm the title in ATP Munichthe first of the season and fourth of his entire career.

Finalist last week in Monte Carlo Masters 1,000where he is also close to victory against the champion Andrei Rublev (5-7, 6-2, 7-5), Rune stepped firmly on the clay-court tour to reaffirm the good signs for his future in tennis.

Madrid is the fourth tournament on clay for Davidovich, who reached the quarterfinals in Estoril and Barcelona and lost in the first round of Monte Carlo against Karen Khachanova. The man from Malaga is another very difficult tennis player, with top-20 spells, but he continues to find that consistency that puts him in the group of tennis players. Last week, he was possibly the rival who gave the champion the most trouble. Number of Godó Trophy, Carlos Alcaraz.