Only rain stops Kyrgios in Washington

Nick Kyrgios He was left wanting to prove his passage to the quarterfinals of the tournament in Washington. the australian dominated Reilly Opelka 7-6(1), 2-1 and 0-30 when the storm forced a suspension of the match and the rest of the day, which has to be finished this Friday.

The weather insisted on being the star at the Citi Open in Washington, first with the heat affecting the tennis players’ game, always above 30 degrees Celsius, and later with heavy rain.

The men’s team was greatly affected, because the matches between the Russians Andrey Rublev and American Maxime Cressy or the one who will measure up to the Danish Holger Rune and the American JJ Wolf.

The tournament must reschedule, in addition to Kyrgios-Opelka, the duel between Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Sebastian Kordain addition to the clash between the Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp and the American Frances Tiafoe.

Among the highlights of the men’s draw, was the British progressing to the quarterfinals Daniel Evans, benefited from the withdrawal due to the injury of American Taylor FritzThis is the fourth time that the paths of both tennis players have crossed and in the previous three the American tennis player has always won.

At the time of abandonment they won a set each and in the third the Englishman reigned 4-1.

In the second set, Fritz had a match point, tying him 6-5, but the next three points fell to Evans. Two breaks apart, the world number 13 decided to retire.

Evans will face Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka this Friday, who defeated Karen Khachanov in a double tie-break and described the atmosphere in the Grand Stand as ‘a crazy hot day’.

Swedish Mikael Ymer completed the quarterfinals, by defeating Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori in three sets (6-3, 6-7 and 6-4). The winner of the match between Dimitrov and Korda will be measured.

Solid Raducanu

In the women’s box, Colombian María Camila Osorio was eliminated in a double tiebreak against British Emma Raducanu (6-7 and 6-7). in the second round of the contest. Mistakes on his serve weighed on his possible advance, he had real options to win both sets.

Raducanu, one of the favorites to win the Citi Open and will defend his US Open title in a few weeks, had to call timeout in the second set to receive medical attention for blisters on his right hand.

In other matches of the day, Liudmila Samsonova beat Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and Xiyu Wang beat Donna Vekic 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.

The only thing left to play is the clash between Belarusian Victoria Azarenka and Czech Tereza Martincová for the final spot in the quarterfinals. Like the men’s match, it will be played this Friday morning.

Azarenka is not only in the news for the suspension of her round of 16 matches, but also for a new round of exchange of statements with the Wimbledon organization for the exclusion of Russian tennis players.

The Belarusian tennis player argued that, as a member of the players’ council, they provided possible solutions and from the British tournament a message of indifference was received in this matter.