He Cincinnati Masters 1000 ATP compiled the twenty best players in the ATP world ranking. In the round of 16, the members of the top-4 coincided, but not all of them made it to the quarterfinals, being among the eight survivors of a tournament with related surprises.
Unexpectedly two players from the previous stage in the penultimate round, one of them a ‘lucky loser’, was recalled at the last minute due to injury.
Little can Australians think Max Purcell, 25 and and no. 70, and Alexei Popyrin24 and nº 58, which will continue in Cincinnati on Friday, after meeting the previous Sunday in the final round of the ‘qualy’.
Purcell won, living an unprecedented experience with the world number one Carlos Alcarazwhich avenged the loss suffered last week against the American tommy paul in Canada. The Spaniard won in three sets, with several interruptions due to rain, and is in position to improve on his 2022 result in Cincy. He then lost to British Cameron Norrie in the quarterfinals.
Deleted by Purcell Lloyd Harris, Casper Ruud, and Stan Wawrinka. He also competes in doubles as a duo with Russian Andrey Rublev.
The game is around 9 pm this Friday, on the center’s third shift.
At the top of the table, the best from Alcaraz-Purcell will face off in the semifinals with the one dominating the clash between the Polish Hubert Hurkaczwhich swept away the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (4), and Popyrin, butcher of Finn Emil Ruusuvuorithat cleaned up the place that left Andrey Rublev.
Below, zone of champions. German is in palmares Alexander Zverev, the best in 2021 and accumulated eight consecutive victories in this tournament, where he was absent in 2022 due to a serious ankle injury sustained that year at Roland Garros. He returned to continue regaining his position in the elite.
He surpassed the 2019 champion, the Russian Daniel Medvedev, which he has failed to do in three previous appearances on this course. Since before the injury he has not beaten a top-10 Zverev.
This Friday, take on French veteran Adrian Mannarino. Danish is expected there Holger Rune, but withdrew due to back problems. And the Canadian did not enter the forecast for a long time Felix Auger-Aliassimebecause of the serious crisis of its results.
The American taylor fritz keeping the USA fire alive. He played 20 points, and won them all, against the Serbian dusan lajovic, who a few days ago surpassed the Canadian champion, the Italian Jannik Sinner. With the American 5-0, Balkan retired due to injury.
Another Serb remained, Novak Djokovic, who closed the day on the eighth against the French Gael Monfils, which he lost in the eighteen times they officially played.
Number 2 returned after Wimbledon, after a two-year absence from the United States. He lifted the trophy twice in Cincinnati, in 2018 and 2020.
The final stage for that is to be the successor to the Croatian Borna Coric, the unexpected champion of 2022. US Open coming soon, it starts on the 28th of August.
This is the quarterfinals
Carlos Alcaraz (Esp/1)-Max Purcell (Aus/Q)
Hubert Hurkacz (Pol)-Alexei Popyrin (Aus/LL)
Adrian Mannarino (Fra)-Alexander Zverev (Ale/16)
Taylor Fritz (USA/9)-Gael Monfils (Fra) or Novak Djokovic (Srb/2)
Source: La Verdad
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