Francisco Cerúndolo scored a brilliant victory at the ATP 500 in Barcelona, in Spain, by beating the Norwegian “Top Ten” Casper Ruud 7-6 (5) and 6-3to access the quarterfinals of the traditional Conde de Godó tournament.
closing it, Located in 32nd place in the ATP world ranking, he had appeared in the Catalan tournament yesterday with a comfortable victory over the Italian Francesco Pessaro (130) by 6-2 and 6-2, and today he built another great job to get rid of one of the best players of the moment.
After a changing first set, in which there were breaks on both sides and in which “Fran” was only able to prevail in the tie break, in the second round the Argentine took the initiative and won the set and the match, at after 1 hour and 55 minutes of contention.
In the previous history, closing it24 years old, beat ruud last year at the Swedish ATP in Bastad, and lost at the Masters 1000 in Miami, also in 2022.
The player from Buenos Aires will play this Friday for the quarterfinals against the British daniel evans (26), who defeated the Russian Karen Khachanova (11) by 6-3 and 6-4.
The contest, which is played on the brick dust surface court of the Real Club de Tenis de Barcelona, will distribute prizes for a total of 2,872,435 euros and has the defending champion, Carlos Alcaraz (2) as the favorite.
The 19-year-old Alcaraz from Murcia and champion this year at the Argentina Open and the Indian Wells Masters 1000, first seeded in the Catalan tournament, earlier beat his compatriot Roberto Bautista Agut (25) 6-3, 7-5. .
Throughout its history, the Count of Godó had two Argentine champions: Martín Jaite in 1987 and Gastón Gaudio in 2002.
Source: Ambito
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