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ROLAND GARROS. Casper Ruud and Holger Rune barely survive the second spherical, crowd favourite Gaël Monfils drops out

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The Norwegian Casper Ruud (ATP 7) and the Dane Holger Rune (ATP 13) certified with nice issue for the third spherical at Roland Garros on Thursday. Ruud, a two-time shedding finalist, defeated the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ATP 32) in a five-setter (7-6 (7/5), 1-6, 6-3, 4-6 and 6-3) after greater than 4 hours of tennis. ).

Ruud will meet the Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ATP 29) within the third spherical, who benefited from the retirement of the Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (ATP 69) within the fourth set. Rinderknech had received the primary two units 6-3 and 7-6 (10/8), however misplaced the third set 6-1 and confronted a 5-0 deficit within the fourth set.

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Holger Rune additionally wanted a five-setter (6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 3-6 and 7-6 (10/7)) in opposition to the Italian Flavio Cobolli (ATP 53). The Dane meets in his third around the Slovakian qualifier Jozef Kovalik (ATP 145), who stunned the Russian Karen Khachanov (ATP 18) in 5 units (4-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 and 6-4 ).

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Roland Garros is over for crowd favourite Gaël Monfils (ATP 37). The 37-year-old Frenchman misplaced in three units (7-5, 6-1 and 6-4) to the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (ATP 30) and thus misses the possibility of a gathering with the Serbian primary on this planet Novak Djokovic.

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