French Open: A 19-year-old knocks out Tsitsipas

The unseeded Dane, who recently won his first ATP title in Munich, defeated number four seeded Greek and last year's finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas after 3:01 hours with 7:5,3:6,6:3,6: 4. This is the first time he has reached a major quarter-final, as has his next opponent, Casper Ruud.

The Norwegian, seeded number 8, defeated Poland's Hubert Hurkacz (No. 12) in the round of 2 after 31:6 hours with 2,6:3,3:6,6:3:7. This means that there will be a duel between two Scandinavians in the quarter-finals: Ruud has played against Rune three times so far and has won all three encounters without losing a set. The Norsker, who wants to defend his title at the Generali Open in Kitzbühel in the summer, recently won in Monte Carlo a few weeks ago with 6:5(7),5:XNUMX.

“I feel incredible, I was so nervous at the end,” admitted Rune, who is playing his first French Open. “It's so great to still be here,” said the right-handed, two-handed backhander.

Out: Stefanos Tsitsipas. © APA/afp / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT

Rune had already eliminated number 14 seed Denis Shapovalov from Canada in three sets in the first round. He gave a sentence for the first time against Tsitsipas. The world number 40. from Gentofte is only playing his third Grand Slam tournament: At the US Open 2021 he was eliminated as a qualifier in round one against Novak Djokovic in four sets, and at this year's Australian Open he was also eliminated in round one in five sets (against Soonwoo Kwon/KOR ).

Now he is the first Dane in the professional era to reach a major men's quarterfinal. In the ranking he will at least improve to 28th place.

The big men's quarter-final clash between Novak Djokvic and Rafael Nadal was scheduled for Tuesday in the night session (from 21.00 p.m.).

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French Open: A 19-year-old knocks out Tsitsipas

On Monday, 19-year-old Holger Rune caused the biggest surprise so far at the 43,6 million euro French Open in Paris.

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