PIF ATP Stay Race To Turin
Ruud, Rublev fall in Paris, as De Minaur, Dimitrov, Tsitsipas see Turin path
ATPTour.com seems at implications on PIF ATP Stay Race To Turin
October 29, 2024
Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour
Casper Ruud’s second-round defeat in Paris might have main implications on the PIF ATP Stay Race To Turin.
By ATP Workers
Casper Ruud and Andrey Rublev’s second-round exits on the Rolex Paris Masters on Tuesday might have main implications on the PIF ATP Stay Race To Turin.
In a back-and-forth battle with Jordan Thompson, Ruud fell to a 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-4 defeat, whereas Francisco Cerundolo defeated sixth seed Rublev 7-6(6), 7-6(5) to report his one hundredth tour-level win.
Ruud is presently seventh within the PIF ATP Stay Race To Turin with 3,855 factors. Eighth-placed Rublev trails the Norwegian by 135 factors to shut out the qualification spots.
Nonetheless, each gamers are unable to safe additional factors at this week’s indoor ATP Masters 1000. In the meantime, fellow Turin hopefuls Alex de Minaur (ninth), Grigor Dimitrov (tenth), and Stefanos Tsitsipas (twelfth) are all nonetheless alive and will climb additional.
De Minaur would surpass Rublev if he had been to make the quarter-finals. If De Minaur and Tsitsipas met within the semi-finals in Paris, and Tsitsipas went on to win the title, then each gamers would leapfrog Rublev and Ruud.
If De Minaur had been to raise the trophy, he would bounce to sixth, and even fifth if Taylor Fritz fell to an early defeat. Both Dimitrov or Tsitsipas triumphing in Paris would catapult them into sixth place within the Stay Race, which concludes subsequent week on the Belgrade Open and Moselle Open in Metz.
Within the final match on Tuesday, Ruud pressured a deciding set, however it was Thompson who stood agency to maneuver 4-3 forward within the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head sequence.
“I believe my ball is a bit bit flatter, it doesn’t give him as a lot time to wind up on each groundstrokes,” stated Thompson, who defeated Ruud within the Los Cabos closing to assert his maiden ATP Tour title in February. “However he’s enjoying good on onerous courts too, I’ve simply managed to get the higher of him a few instances.
“Immediately I discovered it quite a bit tougher, he was hitting it quite a bit deeper and firmer, however fortunately I managed to drag via.”
Earlier, Cerundolo rallied from a break deficit in each units to upset Rublev and report his one hundredth tour-level win. The Argentine was ruthless in assault, profitable 86 per cent (7/8) of internet factors, in response to Infosys ATP Stats.
