Time.news – Fabio Fognini advances in the ‘Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters’ tournament where he is defending champion. The 33-year-old Ligurian tennis player is the only blue to go on in the second Masters 1000 of the season, with a prize pool of 2,082,960 euros, which is being disputed on the red clay of the Montecarlo Country Club.
Today the second strongest Italian tennis player (world number 18), in the part of the scoreboard where there should have been (and could have faced it today) the world number 2 Daniil Medevedev stopped by Covid before the start of the tournament, overtook in due set for 6-2 7-6 il 29enne serbo Filip Krajinović, current number 37 in the world.
Nadal on his way
Fognini will meet tomorrow in the quarter-finals Norwegian Casper Ruud (number 27 in the world) who beat after a marathon of almost three hours for 7-6 5-7 7-5 the Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta and then could eventually find Rafael Nadal in the semifinal against whom he won right in Monte Carlo in 2019 (with a clear 6-4 6-2).
The Djokovic surprise
The day saw the big surprise of the elimination of the number one in the world, Novak Djokovic, defeated in the round of 16 by Englishman Daniel Evans, number 33 in the rankings, with the final score of 6-4 7-5. Unlike the victorious debut with Jannik Sinner, the 33-year-old Serbian tennis player took the field with a completely different attitude, committing over 40 unforced errors and suffering from the changes of pace imposed by the 30-year-old from Birmingham.
Djokovic’s race, which won the tournament in 2013 and 2015, once again stops prematurely despite the fact that the Serbian resides in the Principality and often uses the fields as a training venue for the season on clay.
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