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The royalty of Australian tennis has achieved majestic progress in the Court of Princes with Alex de Minaur and Alexei Popyrin taking renowned chasing leather on the way to reach the quarterfinals of the teachers of Monte Carlo.
Following Thursday on Thursday on court number two at the Monaco Campo Club, Popyrin saved two game points on the way to overcome the number seven of the Ruud world 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 before Minaur lifted his eyebrows through the ease with which the old enemy Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 6-2.
He established the rare gift for Australian tennis to have two players in the quarterfinals of a Clay-Court Masters 1000 event, with the tempting perspective of greater progress for Sydneysider’s friends with De Minaur in front of Grigor Dimitrov and Popyrin against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the last attentive attentions of Friday.
After a horror start in his season, Popyrin feels that he is starting his tennis year again, since he won his best 2025 victory over Ruud.
A year after he knocked out then number six of the Andrey Rublev world in the prestigious Monaco Campo Club, the Beanpole Australian this time represented another great name in his most successful place in the European clay court in a three -hour fight.
Twice, Popyrin was at a point of retiring when 5-3 on the decisive set, before gathering and attacking against the three times of Grand Slam of Norway, recovering the last four games for one of the best triumphs of the clay court of his career.
He also put a terrible start to his year behind Popyrin, who had only won two games before appearing in the Principality for his first departure from the Clay Court season.
“No, I am 3 and 0 this year, I forget the beginning of the year for me,” said the 25 -year -old when asked about his sad opening to 2025.
“It was a difficult beginning of the year, but this week is a new week, and the year is very, very long, and I only have to work and forget the last months, and that is what I have done this week.”
The two-hour victory of 56 minutes on Ruud, sealed by a cross-court volley that was its 49th winner of the match, established a clash with Davidovich Fokina, who also achieved a shock by defeating the fifth British seed Jack Draper 6-3, 6-7 (6-8), 6-4.
The eighth mine of Minaur said that it was really finding its feet in clay after defeating a medvedev number 11 outside the world by earning seven service breaks in a unilateral matter that lasts only 72 minutes.
He said he had taken the confidence of how he had defeated the United States Open champion in Roland Garros last year.
“I thought I executed really well, I only had a slight period of concentration. But apart from that, I thought it was very intelligent and tactically I played in the right way,” said De Minaur, who will play 15th Dimitrov seed, a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 about Novak Djokovic, the Chilean conqueror of Alejandro Tabilo.
Carlos Alcaraz, the second seed, beat the German qualifier Daniel Altmaier 6-3, 6-1 and will face the rising French star Arthur Fils, while the old Nemesis of De Minaur, Stefanos Tsitsipas, looked ominely goodly good with his 6-1 victory, 6-1 over Borges de Nuno.
The sixth Greek seed will play Lorenzo Musetti, who won the All-Cabalian confrontation with Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-3, in the last eight.
AAP
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