This Wednesday in Toronto closed with a big surprise. Holger Rune bid farewell to the tournament after a shocking loss to American Marcos Giron 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
The Danish started badly. Chaotic from the back of the court, he made things look easy for a rival who was more involved in the game. After an initial 6-2 lead came the reaction of the fifth seed, who managed to level the contest in a close second set.
When the return seemed served, the worst version of the Rune reappeared, which She gave up the match after an unfortunate third set in which she lost as many as three times.
Thus the path is clear to Carlos Alcaraz, who should see faces with the Dane in the quarterfinals. Now, if he wins the next morning (01 Spanish peninsular time) against Hubert Hurkacz, his opponent in the penultimate round will be the winner of the duel between Marcos Giron or Tommy Paul, his executioner here last year.
In other matches of the day, and in addition to the solvent victories of Carlos Alcaraz against Ben Shelton and Alejandro Davidovich against Alexander Zverev, Gael Monfils (276) had a great victory, easily eliminating Stefanos Tsitsipas (4). and Mackenzie McDonald (59) against Andrey Rublev (7).
The ones that didn’t give a surprise were Daniel Medvedev (3), who beat Matteo Arnaldi (66), Jannik Sinner (8) who did the same to his compatriot Matteo Berrettini (38), Taylor Fritz (9) to Ugo Humbert (34) and Tommy Paul (14) to Francisco Cerundolo (22).
Other players who advanced after Wednesday’s day were Lorenzo Mussetti, Alex de Minaur, Andy Murray, Milos Raonic and Aleksandar Vukic.
Source: La Verdad
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