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The 23-year-old tennis player defeated Polubert Hurkach (ATP 13) with 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 and will meet with Runi on Wednesday, who defeated Greek Stefan Cicip in the fourth number on Monday.

For the first time, Rūds has made it to the quarterfinals of one of the Grand Slam tournaments, but this season he has already won two titles in the clay court.

“It has been my goal to reach the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam,” said Rud, who missed the Australian Open.

“I didn’t have a chance to play in the Australian Open. Roland Garros is always an important tournament, but this year all the more so because I didn’t compete in Australia,” the Norwegian added after the game.

In the fourth set, Hurkach, who reached the Wimbledon semi-finals last year, took the break with a 2-1 lead.

However, Rūdas took the lead with 5-2.

Hurkačs pushed the ball away, serving himself, but Rūds finished the game in the next game.

In his only clay match last year, Rūdas won Cicipu and has also won Runi in all three previous ATP tournaments.

Rune beat Cicipu 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Monday.

Cicips served better (eight elusive serves against the Danish four) and accumulated slightly fewer unforced errors (33:38), but the Danish talent was superior in almost all other respects.

Rune scored more breakballs (5/11 against 3/8 Cicipam) and won 129 of 252 games.

In another match on Monday, due to an injury to the left leg, the world could not continue the 12th rocket of the world.

At the time of the game, Rublov was in the lead with 1-6, 6-4, 2-0.

His opponent in the quarter-finals will be Marins Čiličs, a Croatian with 23rd place in the tournament.

Rublov will play in his fifth quarterfinal of the Grand Slam after the 2017 and 2010 U.S. Open, the French Open in 2020 and the 2021 Australian Open, while Chile’s 2014 Open will be 14th. Grand Slam “quarterfinals.

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