the russian Andrew Rublevfirst favorite, and the Australian Nick Kyrgiosa recent Wimbledon finalist, won their round of 16 matches against Americans Maxime Cressy and Reilly Opelka, and will play their respective duels this Friday. quarter finals in the contest of Washington.
Heavy rain that fell on Thursday in Washington led to the cancellation of the night program and forced Rublev and Kyrgios to work twice this Friday if they are to reach the semifinals of the capital tournament.
In case Kyrgios It is more demanding, as the Australian is still in the doubles tournament with his American partner Jack Sock, so he will finish his day playing up to three games.
rubles won by 6-4 and 7-6 (8) to Cressynumber 32 in the world ranking, and met in the quarterfinals with the American Jeffrey Wolfwhich removed the Danish Holger Vitus Runeseeded ninth, by winning by 7-5, 4-6 and 6-3tAfter more than two and a half hours of fighting.
Kyrgios was able to advance without great expenditure of energy, completing the work on Thursday afternoon against the Opelka. After taking advantage of a set by winning it 7-1 in the tiebreaker, he didn’t give his rival an option and beat him on the fast track with a 6-2.
He will return to the track this Friday to face the American Frances Tiafoewho came back and won 4-6, 6-2 and 6-3 in Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulpeighth seed.
Also Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, in the women’s draw, was forced to play two games on Friday to try to make it to the semifinals. At this moment, he opened his day with a victory against the Czech Theresa Martincova through 7-6 (7) and 6-2and China’s Wang Xiyu awaits him in the quarterfinals.
Source: La Verdad
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