Favorite falls and Scandinavian successes in Roland Garros: After Stefanos Tsitsipas, second in the world rankings Daniil Medvedev was surprisingly eliminated at the French Open.
US Open winner Daniil Medvedev and last year’s finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas failed in Paris. The second in the world rankings, Medvedev, was clearly defeated by the experienced Croatian Marin Cilic in the evening match 2: 6, 3: 6, 2: 6. Tsitsipas was surprised by the 19-year-old Dane Holger Rune 5: 7, 6: 3, 3: 6, 4: 6.
Rune now meets the Norwegian Casper Ruud in the quarter-finals, who made it into the last eight with a 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over Hubert Hurkacz. Cilic has to deal with Andrei Rublev. The Russian benefited in the round of 16 with a score of 1: 6, 6: 4, 2: 0 from a task by the Italian Jannik Sinner.
Rune and Ruud (23) are the first tennis players from their countries in tournament history (since 1925) to get this far in the clay court classic. Rune, who won the ATP tournament in Munich at the beginning of May, delighted the audience on the Philippe Chatrier court with his varied game.