MELBOURNE, Jan 21 — Fifth seed Andrey Rublev surged into a last-16 clash with Holger Rune at the Australian Open today and thanked opponent Dan Evans for giving him extra energy by donating a banana mid-match.
He will face Danish teenager Rune for a place in the quarter-finals after the ninth seed survived a nasty fall before recovering to sweep past unseeded Frenchman Ugo Humbert 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 . He moved a step closer by defeating his friend and 25th seed Evans, who threw a banana to him at a changeover when he ran out.
“Every match I’m playing better and better and I’m really happy because at the beginning of the season I lost to a couple of players,” he said.He next meets the dangerous Rune, who shocked Novak Djokovic to clinch his first Masters title in Paris late last year to cap a breakthrough season.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
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