Francisco Cerúndolo is experiencing dream weeks. With partials of 6-3, 4-6 and 7-6 (4) the Argentine got rid of Aslan Karatsev at the ATP 500 in Hamburg and got into the semis of the German tournament.
With this triumph over the Russian, the eldest of the Cerúndolo brothers has already accumulated eight consecutive victories: Pedro Sousa, Casper Ruud, Pablo Carreño Busta, Sebastián Báez, Daniel Altmaier, Andrey Rublev and Aslan Karatsev.
After winning in Bastad, he will now look for a new final. In Hamburg, a tournament with a good past for Argentine tennis (was won by Guillermo Vilas, Guillermo Coria, Juan Monaco and Leo Mayer on two occasions) There is no Albiceleste finalist since the 2018 edition, when Yacaré lost to Nikoloz Basilashvili.
Thanks to today’s result, Francisco will climb to 24th place in the world ranking. If he succeeds in the semis, he will be virtually 21st and, if he wins the contest, he would be inside the Top 20 for the first time in his career.
