The World No. 4 Holger Rune takes a big hit at the US Open

Rebecca Masarova opened the scoreboard with surprises at the US Open 2023 defeating the world number 8, the Greek Maria Sakkari. This scorer was continued by another Spaniard, Roberto Carballeswho raised the bar by defeating the No. 4, the Dane Holger Rune.

The Grenadian feasted on track 5 at Flushing Meadows. His rival did not want to go to a stage that was so far from the big stadiums, and ironically he informed everyone by pointing to the map of the facility how to get to that court through social networks. “If you ever find Court 5, that’s where I’ll play my first game…” And the last one of this edition.

carballs, 30 years old and world number 63, himself. To be a rock, as always, to take advantage of any opportunity that came his way. And he went after it, beating his 20-year-old executioner at Wimbledon 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 and 6-2 (2h.42′), 6-3, 7-6 and 6-4 .

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The Spaniard, however, was better in the rivalry on the land of Córdoba 2022 (6-2 and 6-4), although Rune has not yet established himself as one of the new youngsters called to rule tennis. Companion and rival since childhood of Carlos Alcarazthe Nordic is again very far from the performance of his Murcian friend.

Rune came to be held, with lower back discomfort causing him to back away from the fight mackenzie mcdonald at the Cincinnati Masters 1000 ATP. In Canada, last week, he conceded against another American, Marcos Giron.

Shock at the bottom of the box, where the great favorite is the Serbian Novak Djokovic. Rune, quarterfinalist at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, on the street. Carballés, crossing into the second round with the Russian Aslan Karatsev or the czech Jiri Lehecka.