Francisco Cerúndolo made it to the quarter-finals in Hamburg.
Argentine tennis player Francesco Cerundolochampion last Sunday in Bastad, he extended his good moment and finished today in the quarter-finals of the German ATP 500 in Hamburg, after beating the Russian top ten Andrea Rublev from 6-4 and 6-2.
Cerúndolo, 30th in the ATP world rankings, took an hour and 33 minutes to beat Rublev (8) in a match in which he showed a lot of character, since he started 3/0 under and started reversing with the forehand for go on 5-4 and then take the 6-4 set.
In the second quarter, the 23-year-old Argentine, took a 5-1 lead (with a break in service that allowed him to take the lead 4-1) and did not hesitate to win 6-2 and settle in the top eight of the tournament.
closing it, winner in the opening round of the German Daniel Altmaier (56)will play the next match this Friday against another Russian, Aslan Karatserv (37), who beat Colombian Daniel Elahí Galán (113) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
The eldest of the Cerúndolo brothers has ratified his great week with another victory on a “top ten”, after the precedent on the Norwegian Casper Ruud (5) in Bastadwhere he won his first ATP after winning the final also on the Argentine Sebastian Baez.
The Hamburg ATP, which is played on a clay surface and will distribute prizes of € 1,911,620, has Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz (6) as the top favorite for the title.
The Argentine champions of the German tournament throughout history have been Guillermo Vilas in 1978; Guillermo Coria in 2003; Juan Mónaco in 2012 and Leonardo Mayer in the 2014 and 2017 editions.
Source: Clarin
