American Taylor Fritz (ATP-12) in 2 hours. 45 minutes 3:6, 6:4, 6:3, 6:2 defeated the ground cover expert – Norwegian Casper Ruud (ATP-8).
Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (ATP-9) challenged T. Fritz, who in 3 hours. 40 minutes 6:3, 7:6 (7:3), 1:6, 3:6, 6:3 defeated Andrei Rubliov (ATP-6).
True, the tennis players received a lot of criticism after the match and some fans joked that both players tried to give each other victory.
Together, the tennis players made 126 unprovoked errors and 22 double faults.
Another American – Frances Tiafoe (ATP-20) – also won. After 3 hours In the 8-minute duel, the 26-year-old tennis player defeated the Australian Alexei Popyrin (ATP-28) 6:4, 7:6 (7:3), 2:6, 6:3.
The American will meet in the quarterfinals with the German Alexander Zverev (ATP-4), who defeated the American Brandon Nakashima (ATP-50) 3:6, 6:1, 6:2, 6:2.
The tennis players who reached the quarterfinals will each receive 400 ATP ranking points and 530 thousand. US dollars.
The champion will add 2000 rating points and 3.6 million points to his account. US dollars.
2024-09-02 08:07:29