“Cisco”, 23 years old and 103rd in the ATP world ranking, thus became the first Argentine to reach the semifinals in Miami since Juan Martín Del Potro did it in 2018.
He is also the first Argentine to go that far on his debut at a Masters 1000, and the victory will see him rise to 51st in the rankings. “I’m happy, it’s amazing”said just after the match against Sinner (eleventh in the world), who had to withdraw when he lost 1-4 in the opening set due to blisters on his feet.
Cerúndolo had just beaten the Dutchman Tallon Griekspoir (57), the American Reilly Opelka (18), the talented Frenchman Gael Monfils (24) and the American Frances Tiafoe (31).
His next rival will be the winner of the match played by the German Alexander Zverev (4), second favorite for the title, and the Norwegian Casper Ruud (8), champion this year of the Argentina Open.
The quarterfinals of the men’s draw will be completed on Thursday with the matches between the Russian Daniil Medvedev (2), maximum favorite, against the current champion, the Polish Hubert Hurkacz (10); and the ascending Spanish Carlos Alcaraz (16) against the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic (48).
The tournament, which after being played for 32 years at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, moved in 2019 to Hard Rock Stadium, the stadium of the Miami Dolphins of the NFL, had as its first champion in the new venue the Swiss Roger Federer, while in 2020 it was not played due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The tournament is played in parallel with that of the WTA, whose exclusive candidate for the title is the Polish Iga Swiatek (2), champion 10 days ago in Indian Wells and who will be the new number one in the world from the 4th of April.
Swiatek, 20, will play her quarterfinal match against the Czech Petra Kvitova (32).
The first three semifinalists are already defined: the Swiss Belinda Bencic (28) and the Japanese Naomi Osaka (77), who won their respective quarterfinals last night; and the local Jessica Pegula (21), who curiously beat the Spanish Paula Badosa with the same result as Fran Cerúndolo: 4-1 and abandoned.
Source: Ambito
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