Daniil Medvedev cruise ships with to last 16 of Cincinnati Masters as Casper Ruud collisions out – Eurosport

Daniil Medvedev travelled with to the last 16 of the Cincinnati Masters in straight collections yet Casper Ruud collapsed bent on Max Purcell.

Medvedev threw away little time in sending off Lorenzo Musetti for the 2nd time in 6 days, having actually encountered the Italian finally week’s Canadian Open.

Apart from shedding his opening solution video game, Medvedev was never ever bothered, controling behind his initial offer and also striking 25 champions as he finished a 6-3 6-2 triumph.

“But then it comes [down] to being the better in the tough conditions, and that’s what I managed to do today.

“We both made some mistakes, we both made some double faults and stuff like this, but I managed to be a little bit better in important moments and actually I felt like I was playing better and better during the match. So that’s a positive thing for the next round.”

Medvedev won this occasion back in 2019 and also tackles Alexander Zverev following after the German fought previous Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5 6-4.

Zverev was compelled to dig deep yet at some point dominated when he damaged Nishioka late in the 2nd and also offered out the straight-sets win.

Elsewhere, Ruud was stunned in 3 collections by Australia’sPurcell The Norwegian 5th seed was penalized for not taking his opportunities as Purcell liquidated a 6-4 3-6 6-4 triumph.

Ruud offered well, shooting 12 aces, yet stopped working to create in the video game’s huge minutes and also, most importantly, just transformed among 7 break factors.

Contrastingly, Purcell was even more effective, damaging his challenger’s offer two times from the 3 opportunities he existed as he established a last-16 encounter either Stan Wawrinka or Frances Tiafoe.

Jannik Sinner, recently’s victor in Toronto, additionally dropped at the last-32 phase. Like Ruud, the Italian was inadequate when it mattered most, stopping working to transform any one of his 5 break factors in a straight-sets loss to Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic.

Lajovic tackles American Taylor Fritz in the following round.

Another seed to drop was Holger Rune, that retired at a collection and also 2-0 to Mackenzie McDonald.

There were no concerns for Stefanos Tsitsipas, however. The Greek came with 7-6( 3) 7-6( 2) versus Ben Shelton and also Plays Hubert Hurkacz in the following round.

At the top of the draw, Tommy Paul beat France’s Ugo Humbert 6-1 7-6( 4) to establish an additional fascinating face-off with Carlos Alcaraz, having actually defeated the globeNo 1 in the Canadian Open recently.

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