Adrian Mannarino qualified for the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati on Thursday by benefiting from the abandonment of his opponent, the American Mckenzie McDonald, when he was leading 6-4, 3-0. The French N.1 (32nd in the world) will face for a place in the last four the German Alexander Zverev (17th in the world), in full recovery, who eliminated the Russian Daniil Medvedev (3rd) a little earlier. Mannarino, 35, has never beaten Zverev in seven duels, the last dating from February 2022 in Montpellier (6-1, 6-0).
This will be the second Masters 1000 quarter-final for the 35-year-old Ile-de-France veteran, after Montreal in 2017. He confirms his good form over the summer. At the end of July, he had won the third title of his career on the lawn of Newport. In the previous round in Cincinnati, he had eliminated the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime (14th in the world). Thanks to his career, Mannarino will get closer to the best ranking of his career, 22nd in the world in 2018. Another Frenchman is in the race in the round of 16, Gaël Monfils, who challenges Serbian Novak Djokovic in the evening.
