End in the quarterfinals. The best clay player in history, Rafael Nadal, was not good enough at the tournament in Monte Carlo, Russian-run Andrej Rubjlov, and after sets of 2: 6, 6: 4 and 2: 6, he said goodbye to the tournament. He does not get the dream 12th title. The defending champion of the Italian Fabio Fognini also finished, who was not enough for Casper Ruud from Norway 4: 6, 3: 6.
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Rafael Nadal in Monte Carlo was not enough for Rubljova
Eric Gaillard, Reuters
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Thirty-four-year-old Nadal has won both matches so far with Rubljov, but this time from the beginning he was pulling for a shorter end. The 23-year-old Russian took the lead 2-0 and won the first set in 38 minutes. Also in the second set, the former first player in the world lost the opening two gamma, but after more than an hour of fighting, he managed to turn around and equalize.
In the decisive set, however, the eighth player in the world, Rubljov, was on top again. The 20-time Grand Slam winner, who scored seven double errors in the match, took three passes in a row and Nadal was only able to reduce to 2: 5 in the end.
Andrej Rubljov dealt with Rafael Nadal
Eric Gaillard, Reuters
Rublyov will play in the semifinals with Ruud, who eliminated the last winner of the tournament, Fognini. The 33-year-old Italian beat Nadal in Monte Carlo last year on the road to the title, but this time he finished in the quarterfinals. Last year, the Principality of Monaco did not play because of a pandemic.
Ruud decided to win the first set with a break at 5: 4. In the second set, the eighteenth player in the world, Fognini, erased a loss of 0: 3, but the 22-year-old Norwegian did not let go and advanced to the second semifinals of the Masters series tournament in his career.
The second semi-final pair consists of Stefanos Tsitsipas from Greece and the Briton Daniel Evans, who in the third round eliminated the world number one Serb Novak Djokovic and in the quarterfinals he coped with the fifteenth player of the ranking David Goffin from Belgium.
| Monte Carlo Men’s Tournament (clay, € 2,460,585): |
| Singles – Quarterfinals: |
| Ruud (Nor.) – Fognini (15-It.) 6:4, 6:3 |
| Rublev (6-Rus.) – Nadal (3-Sp.) 6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 2 |
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