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Monte Carlo ATP: Fognini stops in the quarters, ko with Ruud

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Fabio Fognini leaves the stage in the quarter-finals of the “Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters”. The semifinal goal for the Ligurian, reigning champion after the success of 2019, has disappeared: the Norwegian Casper Ruud is too good, cold and determined in spite of his 22 years. Fognini lost 6-4 6-3, in an hour and 36 minutes of the match. The Norwegian will face the winner of the match between Rublev and Nadal tomorrow in the semifinal, while the other semifinal will face the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (passed through the retirement of Davidovich Fokina), and the British Daniel Evans who overcame the Belgian in three sets David Goffin.

The match starts at a fast pace. Fognini cancels a break point in the second game, Ruud even four in a grueling and very long fifth game (16 points), which lasted eleven minutes. The Norwegian then recovered from 0-30 in the seventh game, Fognini imitated him in the following one. The match went on like this until the tenth game: ahead 40-15 the blue missed two rights, the Norwegian placed one crossed on the line to get to the set point and one in response on the second, back on the line, to secure the first partial (6-4). And that made all the difference. Fognini accused the blow at the start of the second fraction: in the second game four legal errors cost him the break. With his fifth consecutive game, the 22-year-old from Oslo went up 3-0. After risking the double-break three times in the fourth game, the Ligurian returned with his head in the match, and in the following one he took the joke from his opponent for the first time and shortly after, with a partial of 11 points to 1 , has grabbed it on 3 all. In the eighth game the Ligurian, partly due to his own mistakes and partly due to the Norwegian boy’s two lines, lost the bar again after being ahead 40-0 (5-3). With a first winner and an ace Ruud recovered from 0-30 but Fognini still earned the chance to reopen the match even if his forehand ended long: and shortly after on a tape that made the shot of the ‘blue, the Norwegian has centered the semifinal in Monte-Carlo, the second in a “1000”.

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