The victory sees Rune, ranked fortieth on this planet, turn into the primary ever Danish man to achieve the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, the place he’ll face Norway’s Casper Ruud.
A former junior French Open champion, the 19-year-old can also be the primary man from Denmark to achieve the quarterfinals of any grand slam match since Jan Leschly in 1967, based on the ATP Tour.
“I’ve an unbelievable feeling proper now,” Rune mentioned in his on-court interview after Monday’s match. “I used to be so nervous on the finish, however the crowd was wonderful for me the entire match, the entire match.”
He gained a detailed first set in opposition to final 12 months’s finalist Tsitsipas in simply over an hour earlier than the Greek leveled the match because of a break of serve at 4-3 within the second.
Rune regained the benefit with a break halfway via the third set and raced right into a 5-2 lead within the fourth to assist shut out the win.
Alongside Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz, Rune is the second teenager to achieve the ultimate eight of the boys’s singles draw at this 12 months’s Roland Garros, marking the primary time two male youngsters have reached the quarterfinals of a serious since 1994.
It caps off a shocking 12 months for Rune, who gained his first win over a participant ranked within the high 5 when he defeated Alexander Zverev on the Munich Open in April.
He’ll play Ruud on Wednesday after the 23-year-old defeated Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 6-2 6-3 3-6 6-3.
Tsitsipas, in the meantime, turns into the highest-ranked participant — and the primary ranked inside the highest eight on this planet — to exit the boys’s draw at this 12 months’s French Open.
