“I don’t think I’ve ever played a match that lasted so short,” said Grigor Dimitrov after beating Yannick Hanfmann 6-0, 6-1 in the third round of the Miami Open in 46 minutes! In fact, he had only once given up less than three games in a match, in Rome 2020, against the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (6-1 and 6-0). “I guess he wasn’t feeling well, but I went about my business and did what he had to do. I felt phenomenal on the track,” added the 32-year-old Bulgarian and 12th in the world, who is getting closer to returning to a Top-10 in which he has not entered since 2018.
After this quick victory, Dimitrov will meet this Tuesday (not before 8:30 p.m., Movistar+) with Hubert Hurkacz. The Pole, eighth seed, worked much harder to beat the American Sebastian Korda 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5) and 6-3 in 2h15.
Zverev and De Minaur comply
Before, Alexander Zverev (4th) dispatched without too much difficulty another local tennis player, quarterfinalist last year after playing the previous one, Christopher Eubanks (7-6 (4) and 6-3 in 1h44). The German will face Karen Khachanov (15th) no earlier than 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The Russian defeated the Argentine Francisco Cerúndolo in a beautiful match that ended with a score in his favor of 6-1, 5-7 and 7-6 (5) in 2h48.
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Alex de Minaur also met expectations. The Australian beat the rocky Jan-Lennard Struff 7-6 (3) and 6-4 in 1h49. Now he dominates the face to face with the German 3-2 and will run into the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan at midnight, who after overwhelming Holger Rune on Sunday, also beat another Aussie, Alexei Popyrin (7-5 and 6-3 in 1h32).
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2024-03-26 02:05:29
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