The Italian Jannik Sinner He needed three sets and almost two hours of play to defeat and end the fight of the veteran French tennis player. Gael Monfils (6-3, 3-6 and 6-3) and reached the quarterfinals of the tournament Rotterdam.
The transalpine, winner of Australian Openadded his twelfth consecutive victory over the Parisian player, who was twice champion in Rotterdam, in 2020 and 2019.
The fourth player in the world, who next week will compete on the podium of the world rankings at the expense of the Russian Daniil Medvedev, who will drop from third place, is aiming for his second victory of 2024, the twelfth of his career.
Sinner will face the Canadian in the quarterfinals Milos Raonic.
On the other side of the draw, Grigor Dimitrov, sixth seed, beat Hungarian Marton Fucsovics 6-3, 7-5, and will face Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko, who sprung a surprise in the session by knocking Danish Holger out of the tournament. , second seed, 6-4, 1-6 and 6-3.
The quarterfinals will be completed with a clash between the Dutch Tallon Griekspoor, who unexpectedly defeated the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, fourth seed, by 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5) and 7-6 (4) , and the winner. of the clash between the German Jan Lennard Struff and the Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori, the duel that will close the day.
Source: La Verdad
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