Toronto.- The Australian Alex de Miñaurthe Russian Andrey Rublev and the Americans Ben Shelton and Taylor Fritz They were classified this Sunday for the quarterfinals of the Canada 1000 Masterswhich is played on a hard track in Toronto.
Miñaur, ninth preclassified, defeated the American and seventh French Tiafoe sown in the first game of the day by 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in just under two and a half hours of the game.
The oceanic, eighth of the ranking of the ATP and winner last weekend of the ATP 500 of Washington, was more effective in the key moments, took better advantage of its breakdown opportunities and also connected six ‘ACES’.
“I never thought it was going to be easy, (Tiafoe) has the ability to react when you want. It was difficult to eliminate it,” said De Miñaur, who said that heat and wind complicated it even more. “I simply glad I took this victory,” which gave his seventh classification to the quarterfinals of a tournament in the season.
De Miñaur will look for his place in the semifinals against the American Ben Shelton, a preclassified room.
Shelton, 22, the ascending star of American tennis, defeated the Italian Flavio Cobolli (n.13) for 6-4, 4-6 and 7-6 (7/1) in two hours and 24 minutes of play.
Shelton and Fritz, two Americans in rooms
Before, the Russian Andrey Rublev achieved his pass to rooms when his rival, the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, left in the third set when he was going down 3-0 on the scoreboard.
“It’s not as I wanted to finish, but we played two and a half hours. I’ve already had enough tennis for today,” Rublev said. “I just want to rest, recover and prepare for the next game.”
The first two sets had defined themselves in the Tie-Break: Rublev, sixth sown in Toronto, had lost the first 3/7 and had recovered to win the second by 7/2.
“I couldn’t take advantage of some opportunities, I tried things that didn’t work and frustrated,” Rublev explained after giving up the first set. “But I told myself that I should try to reach the Tie-Break (of the second set), you never know what can happen.”
“In the third set, he no longer moved,” he added.
Rublev’s rival in the quarterfinals will be the American Taylor Fritz, who in the last game of Sunday struggled for two hours and 56 minutes to defeat the Czech Jiri Lehecka (n.19) in three sets that all defined themselves in the Tie-Break.
Fritz, fourth of the world ranking and second preclassified in this 1000 Masters, finally won 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/5) before a Lehecka that raised a tough contest.
