Francisco Cerundolo scored a brilliant victory and beat the Italian Jannik Sinner by 6-7 (3), 6-2 and 6-2, to advance today to the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 tennis rack Rome.
Francisco Cerúndolo, born in the City of Buenos Aires and ranked 31st in the ATP world ranking, put in a superb performance from low to high and took out the public’s favorite, the Italian top ten Jannik Sinner (8), from the tournament. after 2 hours and 27 minutes of confrontation.
After a changing and even first set, which had two breaks per side and which was defined in favor of the young Italian only in the 7-3 tie break, the tennis player from Buenos Aires took control of the game in the last two sets and, in based on power and accurate shots, he disposed of Sinner with a 6-2 double.
The Argentine had beaten the Italian in the Masters 1000 in Miami, and lost in the ATP 500 in Vienna and in the Davis Cup series played in Bologna, all the matches in 2022.
Cerúndolo, 24, had settled into the round of 16 after having previously eliminated the Chinese Yibing Wu (57) and the French Gregoire Barrere (63).
In this way, Cerúndolo, Argentina’s number 1, will face Norwegian Casper Ruud (4), another top ten and who today eliminated Serbian Laslo Djere (62) 6-1, 6-3 in the quarterfinals.
For his part, earlier, the Serbian Novak Djokovicnumber 1 in the world, advanced to the quarterfinals after winning over the British Cameron Norrie (13) 6-3, 6-4.
Djokovic, top favorite for the title at the Roman Foro Italico, prevailed over Norrie (13) after 1 hour and 27 minutes of play, to settle among the eight best in the tournament that he won six times, the first in 2008 and the last last year.
The 35-year-old Serbian will play his next match against the Danish Holger Rune (7), who beat the Australian Alexei Popyrin (77), emerged from the classification, in three sets.
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 throughout its history it has had four Argentine tennis players as champions.
Those who lifted the trophy in Rome were 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: Ambito
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