Nick Kyrgios He was left with the desire to certify his pass to the quarterfinals of the Washington tournament. the australian dominated Reilly Opelka 7-6(1), 2-1 and 0-30 when a storm forced the match to be suspended and the rest of the day, which will have to be completed this Friday.
The weather insists on being the protagonist at the Citi Open in Washington, first with the heat that affected the game of the tennis players, always above 30 degrees Celsius, and later due to the intense rain.
The men’s team was very affected, since the matches between the Russian Andrey Rublev and American Maxime Cressy nor the one that would measure the Danish Holger Rune and the American JJ Wolf.
The tournament must reschedule, in addition to Kyrgios-Opelka, the duel between the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Sebastian Kordain addition to the clash between the Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp and the American Frances Tiafoe.
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Among the highlights of the men’s draw, was the progress to the quarterfinals of the British Daniel Evans, benefited by the withdrawal due to injury of the American Taylor FritzIt was the fourth time that both tennis players crossed paths and in the previous three the American tennis player had always won.
At the time of abandonment they had won a set each and in the third the Englishman ruled 4-1.
During the second set, Fritz had a match point, the tie was 6-5 in his favor, but the next three points fell to Evans. Already two breaks apart, the number 13 in the world decided to retire.
Evans will face Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka this Friday, who beat Karen Khachanov in a double tie-break and defined the atmosphere in the Grand Stand as ‘a crazy hot day’.
The Swedish Mikael Ymer completes the quarterfinals, by beating the Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori in three sets (6-3, 6-7 and 6-4). The winner of the match between Dimitrov and Korda will be measured.
Solid Raducanu
In the women’s box, The Colombian María Camila Osorio was eliminated in a double tiebreak against the British Emma Raducanu (6-7 and 6-7) in the second round of the tournament. Errors in his service weighed down his possible advance, he had a real chance to have won both sets.
Raducanu, one of the favorites to win the Citi Open and who will defend her US Open title in a few weeks, had to call a timeout in the second set to receive medical attention for blisters on her right hand.
In other matches of the day, Liudmila Samsonova beat Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and Xiyu Wang defeated Donna Vekic 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.
The only thing left to play was the clash between the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka and the Czech Tereza Martincová for the last place in the quarterfinals. Like the men’s matches, it will be played this Friday morning.
Azarenka was not only in the news for the suspension of her round of 16 match, but also for a new episode of the exchange of statements with the Wimbledon organization for the exclusion of the Russian tennis players.
The Belarusian tennis player defends that, as a member of the players’ council, they provided possible solutions and from the British tournament a message of indifference was received in this regard.
