Francisco Cerúndolo fell to Casper Ruud and was eliminated from the Masters 1000 in Rome

Francisco Cerundolo could not against the norwegian casper ruud and was defeated 7-6 (5) and 6-4. With this result, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters 1000who was left without the title candidate after the fall of the Serbian Novak Djokovic before the danish Rune Holger.

The Argentine, who is ranked 31st in the world ranking of the atpwas surpassed in the Foro Italico by ruud (4), an even and changing match that was narrowly defined in favor of the European player, after 2 hours of play. Regardless, he put in a great performance in Rome with his previous successive wins over the Chinese Yibing Wu (57), French gregoire barrere (63) and Italian jannik sinner (8).

closing it he played equally against one of the best tennis players on the circuit, and although he had already defeated him this season, this time the result could not be repeated. The Norwegian was more precise at crucial moments and that tipped the balance to his side.

ruud will meet in the semifinals with one of the promises of the circuit, Rune (7), who eliminated Djokovic (1) by 6-2, 4-6 and 6-2, after 2 hours and a quarter of play in an intense game that suffered an interruption due to rain. The quarterfinals will be completed this Thursday with two games: daniel medvedev (3) bet Yannick Hanfman (101) years borna coric (16) bet Stefanos Tsitsipas (5).