Popyrin springs top-20 upset to succeed in Montreal third spherical | 9 August, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Alexei Popyrin takes down Ben Shelton on the Canadian Masters as Jordan Thompson, Rinky Hijikata and James Duckworth come up quick.

Montreal, Canada, 9 August 2024 | Dan Imhoff

Alexei Popyrin will bid to succeed in his second ATP Masters 1000 quarterfinal after scoring his first top-20 win since April over Ben Shelton in Montreal on Thursday.

Popyrin’s 6-4 7-6(4) win got here on the heels of his straight-sets ledger towards world No.39 Czech Thomas Machac and set a showdown with seventh seed Grigor Dimitrov, an opponent with whom he has break up two conferences.

Victory avenged a defeat to the 11^th-seeded American after they beforehand met within the third spherical of final yr’s Australian Open. It was Popyrin’s 12^th top-20 win however solely his second this yr after he beat reigning Monte Carlo Masters champion Andrey Rublev in April.

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Dimitrov earlier ended any probability of an all-Australian third spherical conflict when he breezed previous Rinky Hijikata 6-1 6-0.

Prime-30 debutant Jordan Thompson had excessive hopes of an upset towards second seed Alexander Zverev, having overwhelmed him twice prior to now yr, together with en path to his maiden tour title in Los Cabos in February.

The German, nevertheless, was sharper from the off and prevented a 3rd straight defeat to the 30-year-old, 6-1 6-1.

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Fortunate loser James Duckworth examined sixth seed Casper Ruud – a participant ranked 70 locations larger – in his push to succeed in the third spherical on the occasion a second time earlier than the Norwegian superior 6-2 6-7(5) 6-3.

In his solely prior look within the Canadian Masters principal draw three years in the past, Duckworth beat Taylor Fritz and Jannik Sinner back-to-back to succeed in the spherical of 16.

The fifth Australian by means of to the second spherical, Thanasi Kokkinakis, was as a consequence of meet fourth seed Hubert Hurkacz on Thursday evening.

In doubles, 12^th seeds Thompson and Max Purcell went right down to this yr’s Australian Open finalists Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori 6-3 7-6(4) within the second spherical. Bolelli and Vavassori’s Australian Open conquerors, second seeds Matt Ebden and Rohan Bopanna, fell 4-6 6-3 [10-7] to 14^th seeds Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinksi.