The Argentine tennis player Francis Cerundolo today he will face the Norwegian Casper Ruud for the quarterfinals of Rome Masters 1000left without his favorite after the fall of the Serbian Novak Djokovic against the Danish Holger Rune.
Cerúndolo, in 31st place in the world ranking of ATP extensionwill try to finish in the top four of the tournament being played at the Foro Itálico against the Norwegian “top ten” Ruud (4) in a match which will start no earlier than 14:00 (Argentina time) and will be broadcast by ESPN.
The 24-year-old Argentinian was the protagonist of a great performance in Rome with consecutive victories over the Chinese Yibing Wu (57), the Frenchman Gregoire Barrere (63) and the aforementioned Italian Sinner (8).
Cerúndolo has a good chance against Ruud, whom he beat twice, last year in Bastad, Sweden and last April at Conde de Godó, Barcelona, as he lost in the semifinals at the 2022 Miami Masters 1000.
In case of victory, “Fran” Cerúndolo will meet in the semifinals the rising Dane Rune (7), who eliminated Djokovic (1) after beating him 6-2, 4-6 and 6-2 after two and a quarter hours of play in an intense match that was interrupted due to rain.
Djokovic, 35, has won the Masters 1000 in Rome six times, the first in 2008 and the last time last year, but this time he failed to beat Rune, who knocked him out again as happened last year in the Masters final 1000. from Paris .
The quarterfinals will be completed this Thursday with two matches: Daniil Medvedev (Russia, 3) against Yannick Hanfmann (Germany, 101) and Borna Coric (Croatia, 16) against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (5),
Meanwhile in the women’s draw there will be two matches for the quarterfinals: the Polish Iga Swiatek (1) will meet the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (6) not before 15:30 and the Spanish Paula Badosa (35) will face the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko ( 20).
The Masters 1000 in Rome, which is played in parallel between the ATP and the WTA, will distribute prizes for 8,637,966 euros and in its history has had four Argentine tennis players as champions.
Who lifted the trophy in Rome was Guillermo Vilas in the 1980 edition, José Luis Clerc was crowned in 1981 and Alberto “Luli” Mancini in 1989.
However, the most outstanding of the Argentines was Gabriela Sabatini, who was crowned at the Foro Italico four times: 1988, 1989, 1991 and 1992.
Source: Clarin
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