Alexei Popyrin and Max Purcell are via to the ultimate eight within the males’s singles competitors at Cincinnati this week.
Cincinnati, USA, 17 August 2023 | Leigh Rogers
Alexei Popyrin and Max Purcell have continued their career-best runs on the ATP Masters 1000 match in Cincinnati.
Popyrin, who entered the draw as a fortunate loser after being edged out by Purcell in a three-set battle within the last qualifying spherical, is now via to the lads’s singles quarterfinals.
The 24-year-old Australian recorded a 6-2 1-6 6-3 victory in opposition to world No.60 Emil Ruusuvuori of Finland within the third spherical.
Prime of the Pops 🙌@AlexeiPopyrin99 reaches his first Masters quarter-final with a 6-2 1-6 6-3 victory over Ruusuvuori #CincyTennis pic.twitter.com/OU9tmq6i7h
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) August 17, 2023
This units up a quarterfinal conflict with world No.20 Hubert Hurkacz of Poland, who has eradicated defending champion Borna Coric and world No.4 Stefanos Tsitsipas in a giant-killing run this week.
World No.58 Popyrin’s earlier finest consequence at ATP Masters 1000 degree was a fourth-round look at Rome earlier this 12 months.
Purcell, who recorded his career-first main-draw win at an ATP Masters 1000 occasion in Toronto final week, can also be via to the quarterfinals.
The 25-year-old Australian posted a 6-4 6-2 victory in opposition to three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka within the third spherical.
World No.70 Purcell struck seven aces and didn’t lose serve within the 72-minute encounter.
Maxing out 🤩@MaxPurcell98 at #CincyTennis:
Reaches maiden Masters QF in second Masters look ✅
Earns maiden Prime-10 win over No.7 Ruud ✅
Subsequent: Alcaraz or Paul! pic.twitter.com/NIA1ntNbdQ
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) August 17, 2023
It’s Purcell’s eighth victory from his 9 singles matches previously fortnight. 5 of those wins have been in opposition to higher-ranked opponents.
“The final two weeks I’ve had this actually good routine in between each level and on the change of ends,” Purcell mentioned.
“A number of the issues I say to myself, it’s actually helped me mentally in-between each level, sort of simply re-set and never fear about it. Truthfully, I haven’t felt too nervous within the largest events. I’ve taken it point-by-point and instructed myself that, and yeah, it’s labored.”
His newest victory units up a final-eight showdown with world No.1 Carlos Alcaraz.
This marks the primary time in 21 years that two Australian males have progressed to the singles quarterfinals at Cincinnati. Lleyton Hewitt and Wayne Arthurs have been the final to attain this feat in 2002.
In males’s doubles motion, John Friends and Croatian companion Nikola Mektic booked their spot within the quarterfinals with a hard-fought 7-5 2-6 [13-11] win in opposition to seventh-seeded German pair Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz.
World No.40 Friends and world No.24 Mektic, who’re teaming up for the primary time this week, clinched victory on their fourth match level in a tense match tiebreak.
This propels 35-year-old Friends into his first ATP Masters 1000 quarterfinal of the season and matches his career-best consequence at Cincinnati.
Storm Hunter and Belgian companion Elise Mertens wanted solely 74 minutes to safe a spot within the ladies’s doubles quarterfinals.
The second seeds conceded solely 11 factors on serve in a dominant 6-4 6-1 second-round victory in opposition to Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu and Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo.
Ellen Perez and her American companion Nicole Melichar-Martinez are via to the ladies’s doubles semifinals, after surviving a spirited problem from Japan’s Miyu Kato and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi within the quarterfinals.
The third-seeded Perez and Melichar-Martinez received 7-5 4-6 [10-8] to succeed in the semifinals for the second 12 months in a row.
Aussies in motion – Cincinnati
RESULTS
Males’s singles, third spherical
[Q] Max Purcell (AUS) d Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 6-4 6-2
[LL] Alexei Popyrin (AUS) d Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN) 6-2 1-6 6-3
Males’s doubles, second spherical
John Friends (AUS)/Nikola Mektic (CRO) d [7] Kevin Krawietz (GER)/Tim Puetz (GER) 7-5 2-6 [13-11]
[6] Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) d Max Purcell (AUS)/Andrey Rublev 4-6 6-3 [10-7]
[WC] Christopher Eubanks (USA)/Ben Shelton (USA) d [4] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) 7-6(4) 2-6 [10-7]
Ladies’s doubles, second spherical
[2] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Elise Mertens (BEL) d Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) 6-4 6-1
Ladies’s doubles, quarterfinals
[3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) d Miyu Kato (JPN)/Aldila Sutjiadi (IND) 7-5 4-6 [10-8]
COMING UP
Males’s singles, quarterfinals
[Q] Max Purcell (AUS) v [1] Carlos Alcaraz (ESP)
[LL] Alexei Popyrin (AUS) v Hubert Hurkacz (POL)
Males’s doubles, quarterfinals
John Friends (AUS)/Nikola Mektic (CRO) v Maximo Gonzalez (ARG)/Andres Molteni (ARG)
Ladies’s doubles, quarterfinals
[2] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Elise Mertens (BEL) v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova/Luisa Stefani (BRA)
Ladies’s doubles, semifinals
[3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v TBC
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