Germany’s tennis star Alexander Zverev defeated his fear opponent Francisco Cerúndolo for the first time and reached the quarter-finals at the ATP Masters in Toronto.
The Argentinian, against whom he had lost all three previous games on sand, gave up for the Hamburger at 6: 4 and 1: 0. Zverev celebrated its 501st success on the ATP tour. In the round of the last eight, he meets Alexei Popyrin from Australia.
The world ranking third, which in the absence of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, initially struggled at the Hartplatz tournament in Canada, lost his serve game early, but promptly managed the rebreak and won the first set after 46 minutes.
He started the second round with a break, then the Argentinian gave up. At Cerúndolo, injury problems in the area of the abdomen had already occurred during the first set.