“I can say now that I’m starting to participate in the tournament,” said Sinner, who reached this stage without playing at the start of his career following the withdrawal of his Argentine opponent Diego Schwarzman. From day to day.”
Sinner has been making good performances recently, as he reached the final of the Miami tournament, and before that the semi-finals of the Indian Wells tournament.
The last confrontation between Sinner and Horkacz dates back to the final of the Miami tournament in March 2021, when the latter won his first major title.
Sinner was late to enter the rhythm of the match and found himself trailing in the first set 0-3, and despite regaining his balance, he was unable to make up the difference.
Then the Pole succeeded in breaking the Italian serve to advance 2-1, but Sinner responded directly and the tie remained until the latter decided the group result in his favor following a decisive round in which Hurkacz got the opportunity to settle the match, the score 6-5, but he did not take advantage of it.
The Italian defeated Ali Hurkacz in the third set, 6-1.
“It was very difficult today,” Sinner concluded. “For a set and a half, my opponent was serving very well.”
Struff surprises Rod
On the other hand, the Norwegian Casper Rudd, the fourth seed in the tournament, who reached the final of the Roland Garros Championship last year, was eliminated by a surprising loss to German Jan-Lennard Struff 1-6, 6-7 (6-8).
Struv, ranked 100 in the world, qualified to participate in this tournament through the qualifiers, and he will face in the quarter-finals, the fifth Russian Andrei Rublev, who defeated compatriot Karen Khachanov, the ninth, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2.
The match is considered revenge for Rublev, who was knocked out by Shtrov in the first round of the Roland Garros Championship in 2021, in the last confrontation between the players.
The result was close among the Russian players in the first set, and Rublev decided it following a playoff round.
In the second, Rublev, runner-up in Monte Carlo in 2021, succeeded in advancing 4-1, then 5-2, before settling the score in his favour.
Rublev said, “We know each other well. In the first set it was a matter of mentality. Then, following I decided the second set in my favor, I felt liberated while my opponent retreated mentally.”
Ruud, runner-up at Roland Garros last year, entered this tournament with nine consecutive victories on clay, following he was crowned champion of the Swiss Gstaad tournament last July, and Estoril last Sunday, but he seemed far from his level once morest Struff.
And the Association of Professional Players announced the withdrawal of the Italian, ranked 22nd in the world, Matteo Berrettini, before his match in the final price once morest Denmark, Holger Rohne, who thus guaranteed his qualification to the quarter-finals.
The association indicated that Berettini, who fought three long sets on Wednesday night to eliminate Argentine Francisco Sirondolo with a score of 5-7, 7-6 (7/1), 6-4 despite leading 5-0 in the first set, suffers from pain in the “oblique muscles.” “.
Accordingly, 19-year-old Ronh will play for the first time in the quarter-finals of Monte Carlo, and he will face the Russian world number five, Daniel Medvedev, or the German Alexander Zverev (ranked 16) to reserve a seat in the semi-finals.
The Dane won the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000 title last year, by defeating Serbian Novak Djokovic in the final.
