Humbert completes quarter-final line-up in Monte-Carlo with win over Sonego
Ugo Humbert won against Lorenzo Sonego 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 on Thursday evening. He’ll play Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 8 seed, in the next round
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Frenchman Ugo Humbert, the No 14 seed, moved into the last eight of the Monte-Carlo Masters by beating Italian lucky loser Lorenzo Sonego 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 at Monte-Carlo Country Club on Thursday evening.
Humbert, ranked No 15, will play Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 8 seed, next.
Ahead of his victory, the Frenchman won against Argentinian qualifier Federico Coria (4-6, 6-1, 6-2) and Chinese Zhizhen Zhang (6-1, 6-4).
Sonego, ranked No 57, won against Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime (6-4, 7-5) in the previous round of the Monte-Carlo tournament.
Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, other last 16 results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 5.950.575, most recent results first):
- Casper Ruud beat Hubert Hurkacz (10): 6-4, 6-2
- Jannik Sinner (2) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 6-4, 6-2
- Holger Rune (7) beat Grigor Dimitrov (9): 7-6 (9), 3-6, 7-6 (2)
- Novak Djokovic (1) beat Lorenzo Musetti: 7-5, 6-3
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (12) beat Alexander Zverev (5): 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Karen Khachanov (15) beat Daniil Medvedev (4): 6-3, 7-5
- Alex De Minaur (11) beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-4
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