Ruud, the metronome
A blow to the top which didn’t stop the Californian from delivering one other blow within the second set to equalize and thus redistribute the playing cards, one may assume. However Ruud, metronome from the baseline at all times able to making an additional shot, continued to attempt every little thing to push his opponent right into a mistake. The American No. 1 discovered this the laborious method till giving up the third spherical after an interminable final recreation.
Injured – or at the very least embarrassed – within the left hip and manipulated a number of instances by the physiotherapist, Fritz noticed the lure shut on him, struggling much more the consequences of the Scandinavian’s topspin forehand. Finalist of the final two editions, Ruud finds himself this 12 months on the foot of a mountain from the quarter-final stage: on Wednesday, he’ll attempt to take revenge on his final tormentor Porte d’Auteuil, Novak Djokovic.
