Inaugurated early Thursday morning, the Danish Holger Rune20 years old and world no. Stan Wawrinka, Hubert Hurkacz, Andrey Rublev, Carlos Alcaraz, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Novak Djokovic.
He is not the great victim of a heavy program and a long day. The Italian will have to make his debut next Jannik Sinner. A recent champion from Vienna and No. 4 who opened his match, against the American Mackenzie McDonaldon the same day he was supposed to face the round of 16. Pretty crazy.
And luckily for Sinner and McDonald Rune didn’t hesitate against the Austrian Dominic Thiem, a former US Open champion and finalist at Roland Garros and Australia, who at the age of 30 had to go through the qualifying phase in Paris. He’s 99th in the world, working to get back where he hasn’t even appeared – the elite – since wrist surgery.
Rune, who outplayed Thiem (6-4 and 6-2 in 1h.31′), will face the German in the round of 16 Daniel AltmaierAmerican stomach injury disability beneficiary Taylor Fritz.
The new German student has a lot at stake Boris Becker eighth in the Race ATP classification, which marks the cut of starters and substitutes for the ATP Finals. Ahead is Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverevwho face each other this Thursday, but mainly the Pole is pushing hard from behind Hubert Hurkacz. Of them, there’s only room for three, that’s all Alex de Minaur Don’t raise your glass on Sunday and sign up for the last party in Turin.
Source: La Verdad
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