Rotterdam Open: Ruusuvuori knocks out Ugo Humbert to move into second round
Emil Ruusuvuori beat Ugo Humbert 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-3 on Wednesday. He’ll face German Jan-Lennard Struff in the next round
Finn Emil Ruusuvuori beat Ugo Humbert, the No 7 seed, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Rotterdam Open at the Rotterdam Ahoy.
Ruusuvuori improves his head-to-head against the Frenchman to 5-0, having beaten Humbert across all three surfaces.
Humbert, champion in Marseille last week, was a break up in the final set having fought back from a one-set deficit, but could not get over the line as the Finn won five of the last six games to reach round two.
Ruusuvuori, ranked No 55, will play German Jan-Lennard Struff next.
Rotterdam ATP 500, other first-round results (Rotterdam Ahoy, hard, EUR 2.134.985, most recent results first):
- Jannik Sinner vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
- Roman Safiullin vs. Holger Rune
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Lorenzo Sonego: wednesday
- Gael Monfils (WC) beat Denis Shapovalov (Q): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5)
- Hubert Hurkacz (4) beat Jiri Lehecka: 6-3, 6-7 (9), 7-6 (9)
- Andrey Rublev (2) beat Zizou Bergs (Q): 7-5, 6-3
- Jan-Lennard Struff beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)
- Alex De Minaur (5) beat Sebastian Korda: 6-4, 6-3
- Marton Fucsovics beat Fabian Marozsan: 7-6 (5), 6-1
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Zhizhen Zhang: 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Alexander Bublik (8) beat Borna Coric: 6-3, 6-4
- Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Maxime Cressy (Q): 7-6 (3), 7-6 (8)
- Tallon Griekspoor beat Lorenzo Musetti: 3-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (3)
- Milos Raonic beat Jesper De Jong (WC): 7-6 (5), 6-4
- David Goffin (Q) beat Dino Prizmic (WC): 6-4, 6-7 (12), 6-1