Andrei Rublevsecond favorite, beat also Russian Pavel Kotov and he met the German Alexander Zverevfifth, Brazilian executioner Thiago Monteiroin the round of 16 of the clay tournament bastard.
The Muscovite, the seventh player in the world and winner of this year’s Monte Carlo Masters 1000, won 6-3 and 7-6 (4) in an hour and a half, in the first face-to-face between the two .
Rublev will face German Alexander Zverev, the fifth favorite, in the quarterfinals, who overcame Brazilian Thiago Monteiro, whom he defeated 6-1, 6-0. The German, nineteenth in the world, took one hour and one minute to beat the tennis player from Fortaleza for the second time, whom he already defeated last year in the Davis Cup tie, held in Rio de Janeiro.
For his part, the Valencian Barnabas Zapata53 in the world, bid farewell to the round of 16 after being defeated this Thursday by the Swiss Sebastian Ofner (n.58 ATP), winning 6-4, 4-6 and 4-6.
The match, which lasted two hours and 34 minutes, was marked by service breaks with a total of thirteen: 5 in the first set that the Spaniard got after breaking his rival’s serve with 5-4 in favor and 3 and 5 in the second and a third set respectively, which the Swiss managed to overcome to win the match.
They have met twice and Ofner has always won: in March 2019 at the Challenger in Lyon by 6-7(1), 7-6(5) and 6-7(2) and in June 2021 at the previous stage of Queen’s by of 1-6 and 4-6.
Ofner will face the first seed in the quarterfinals, Casper Ruudexecutioner of Russian Alexander Shevchenko (n.96), by 6-2 and 6-4.
The 24-year-old Norwegian, Swedish clay champion in 2021, took one hour and nineteen minutes to eliminate the Russian, without any difficulty.
Source: La Verdad
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