Roland-Garros: Ruud reaches back-to-back quarter-finals in Paris
The Swede will play the winner of the match between Dane Holger Rune, the No 6 seed, and Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 23 seed, in the next round
Norway’s Casper Ruud, the No 4 seed, moved into the last eight of Roland-Garros with a hard fought straight sets win over Chile’s Nicolas Jarry in Paris on Monday.
The 2022 French Open runner-up came from a break down in the second and third sets to win 7-6 (3), 7-5, 7-5 in three hours and 20 minutes.
Back-to-back quarterfinals 🇳🇴
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In a tight three sets, it’s @CasperRuud98 who comes out on top over Jarry 7-6(3), 7-5, 7-5.#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/PNsacfGNPc
Ruud, ranked No 4, will face the winner of the match between Dane Holger Rune, the No 6 seed, and Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 23 seed, next.
Ahead of his victory, the Norwegian defeated Swede qualifier Elias Ymer (6-4, 6-3, 6-2), Italian qualifier Giulio Zeppieri (6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5) and Chinese Zhizhen Zhang (4-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4).
Jarry, ranked No 35, won against Hugo Dellien (6-4, 6-4, 6-2), American Tommy Paul, the No 16 seed (3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-5) and American Marcos Giron (6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-3) earlier in the tournament.
Roland-Garros (Grand Slam), other fourth round matches (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 49,600,000)
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (5) beat Sebastian Ofner (Q): 7-5, 6-3, 6-0
- Carlos Alcaraz (1) beat Lorenzo Musetti (17): 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
- Novak Djokovic (3) beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
- Karen Khachanov (11) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7), 6-1
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Alexander Zverev
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- Holger Rune vs. Francisco Cerundolo