Favourites fall and Scandinavian success at Roland Garros: After Stefanos Tsitsipas, world number two Daniil Medvedev has also surprisingly been eliminated from the French Open.
US Open winner Daniil Medvedev and last year’s finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas were eliminated in Paris. The world number two Medvedev was defeated by the experienced Croatian Marin Čilić in the evening match 2:6, 3:6, 2:6, while Tsitsipas was surprised by the 19-year-old Dane Holger Rune 5:7, 6:3, 3:6, 4:6.
Rune will now face Norway’s Casper Ruud in the quarter-finals, who advanced to the last eight with a 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over Hubert Hurkacz. Čilić will face Andrej Rublev. The Russian benefited from a retirement of Italy’s Jannik Sinner in the round of 16 at 1:6, 6:4, 2:0.
Rune and Ruud (23) are the first tennis players from their countries in tournament history (since 1925) to reach this far in the clay court classic. Rune, who won the ATP tournament in Munich at the beginning of May, thrilled the crowd on Court Philippe Chatrier with his varied game.