The Mutua Madrid Open 2024 experiences its first day of quarterfinals this Wednesday, May 1. We will meet the main characters of the first semifinal after Monday marked by the farewell of Rafa Nadal.
The Balearic player couldn’t handle the momentum of Czech Jiri Lehecka and was eliminated in the round of 16. The 22-year-old Czech won 7-5 6-4 in two hours and two minutes and advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament where he will face Russian Daniil Medvedev, third seed, who previously left the Kazakh Alexander Bublik ( 7 -6(3) and 6-4.
Things just got better for Carlos Alcaraz. The two-time defending champion in Madrid was on the brink of elimination against German Jan-Lennard Struff, whom he eventually defeated 6-3, 6-7 (5) and 7-6 (4) in a match that full of errors and genius on the part. of the same.
The champion and the 2023 finalist met again a year after the Spaniard won the title match (6-4, 3-6 and 6-3) and Alcaraz, second seed, is a repeat winner in three roundsbut there were two tiebreakers, after two hours and 52 minutes.
Jannik Sinner seals his pass to the quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters 1,000 for the first time in his career after coming back against Russian Karen Khachanov (5-7, 6-3 and 6-3) and overcoming the discomfort in her right hip that she has had since the Monte Carlo tournament.
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime also won.35 in the world ranking, who joined the list of quarterfinalists of the Madrid tournament with a hard-fought victory over Norwegian Casper Ruud by 6-4 and 7-5.
The Canadian will make his first Masters 1,000 quarterfinal since Indian Wells in 2023.
Mutua Madrid opens
Quarter finals
Jannik Sinner (Ita/1)-Felix Auger-Aliassime (Can)
Daniil Medvedev (Rus/3)-Jiri Lehecka (Che/30)
Taylor Fritz (USA/12)-Fran Cerúndolo (Arg/21)
Andrey Rublev (Rus/7)-Carlos Alcaraz (Esp/2)
Source: La Verdad

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