Norway’s Casper Ruud, fourth in the world and seeded No.1 at the 500 clay tournament in Hamburg, qualified for the quarter-finals by overthrowing Chilean Christian Garin 1-6, 6-2, 6-2 .
Ruud, who had already conceded a 6-0 in the final at Bastad on Sunday against Andrey Rublev, was quickly led to nothing after 27 minutes (1-6). But the finalist of the last two editions of Roland-Garros has been able to find the thread of his game on clay, his favorite surface, to reverse the trend against Garin (120th in the world).
More consistent in the exchanges, more precise in the service, Ruud also took advantage of Garin’s leaps of concentration. The Chilean, very expressive on the court, conceded nine consecutive games between the second and the third set.
In the quarter-finals, Ruud will find on his way the French Arthur Fils (71st in the world), who reaches this stage of an ATP 500 tournament for the first time in his career, at 19 years old. The two tennis players have never faced each other on the ATP Tour.
