PARIS (AFP) – Top-seeded Alexander Zverev was overwhelmed in his first match in the Munich ATP event by 18-year-old Dane Holger Rune 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday (April 27).
The German, ranked third in the world had been given a bye in the primary spherical of a event he received in 2017, 2018, however solely lasted in 1 hour 39 minutes in his second-round match towards the Seventieth-ranked Rune.
“He’s in the top three in the world and has been playing some unbelievable tennis,” Rune stated in his on-court interview.
“I obviously didn’t expect to win in two sets, and with a score like this. But it was a really hard match, we played a lot of rallies and I’m really happy about my performance.”
Rune broke in the second sport to steer 3-0. At 5-3 he had six set factors. He squandered 4 set factors on unforced errors in the ninth sport. Then Zverev saved the fifth with a winner, earlier than Rune transformed the sixth by placing away a volley.
Rune once more broke without delay in the second set and broke once more to steer 5-1.
While Rune had received the opening match in every of his final for tournaments, this was the primary time this 12 months he had received two matches in a row at an ATP occasion.
It was additionally the primary time he had crushed a Top 10 participant.
Rune, who turns 19 on Friday, will meet both Finn Emil Ruusuvuori, ranked 63rd in the world, or American Maxime Cressy, ranked sixty fifth, in the quarter-finals.
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