Casper Ruud imposed his talent over the ground, more suitable for his conditions than Taylor Fritzand won American 7-5 and 6-4 and qualified for the quarterfinals of Masters 1000 in Madrid.
The Oslo player, who has fallen into the ranking and is now installed in the fifteenth area of the ATP, has achieved his first victory over a World Cup 5 since he won Carlos Alcaraz in the previous ATP Finals.
The Norwegian is more reliable in service than his rival, fourth to the world, who has provided the service twice the first manga and one of the second. An imbalance that Ruud took advantage of to win the third time in four American quarrels.
Ruud, once number two in the world, in 2022, ‘tard an hour and 37 minutes to close the game he managed to hold himself in his thirteenth quarter of a masters 1000, the first since he reached the final Montecarlo last year and lost with Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Norwegian, who did not win a contest from Geneva and Barcelona in 2024 and that this 2025 lost the final Dallas against Canada Denis Shapovalov, would play in rooms against Russian Daniil Medvedev watching the American Brandon Nakashima, 3-6, 6-1 and 6-4.
Moscow, who has not achieved a title since 2023, when he succeeded in Rome, Miami, Doha and Dubai, and without a final since he arrived in Indian Wells and the Australian Open in 2024, survived the American threat he won in 2023, by 6-4 and 6-3, on a rough track.
The contest, without Alexander Zverev, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and Andrey Rublev, among the initial claims, was maintained for Medvedev; That was adapted to the land of Madrid which had long caused him so much hate.
Last year he was quarterfinalist. Now, in his sixth presence, he managed to put himself in the best eight in the third time in a 1000 masters in his career.
It took an hour and 51 minutes to combine his return to a quarrel placed in the first manga that the American pointed out that he intended to reach the best result of his route to an event at this level.
Source: La Verdad
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