Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasfirst favorite of the tournament stuttgartkicked off his starter season on grass with a loss to the Frenchman Richard Gasquetwho reached the quarter-finals.

The Hellene, the fifth player in the world and who is looking for his first win of 2023 After losing finals at the Australian Open and Barcelona, ​​with nine titles to his name, including one on grass, in Mallorca last year, he held on against the French veteran, who closed his success in three sets (7-6(8), 2-6 and 7-5) after two hours and 19 minutes.

Tsitsipas and Gasquet had met four times before and in three of them, including this year’s in Miami, the wins went to the Athenian. However, the Frenchman’s only victory was on grass, at Bolduque in 2018. This time again, he took advantage of his ability on this type of track and He capitalized on his rival’s lack of adaptation.

Gasquet will play the quarter-finals with the German Jan LennardStruff who eliminated the American tommy paul, seeded fifth, in two tie breaks. By 7-6(4) and 7-6(5).

The Hungarian also progressed in the tournament marton fucsovics, from the previous phase, who beat the Chinese Yibing Wu in three sets (6-4, 4-6 and 6-4). He’ll see faces with the American Taylor Fritzsecond favorite, which left the Russian Aslan on the road Karatsev (7-6(4) and 6-3) to reach the quarter-finals.

Medvedev, in his worst moment of the year

the Russian Daniel Medvedevfirst favorite, and the Canadian Milos Raonicback in competition after two years, were left out of the quarter-finals of the Bolduque tournament in the Netherlands, eliminated by the French Adrian Mannarino and the Australian jordan thompsonrespectively.

The tournament remained without two of its main demands. Neither Medvedev nor Raonic were among the eight contenders for the grass-court event.

particularly striking was elimination of muscovite, third player in the world. His grass-court debut this season ended in a 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 loss to an opponent he had faced four times before with tie wins.

Within two hours, Medvedev lost his first game on grass in this year 2023. The winner of the 1000 Masters in Rome and Miami, and the tournaments in Dubai, Doha and Rotterdam this year, fell on Mannarino, winner at Bolduque in 2019 and who will face the Australian Jordan Thompson, executioner of the Canadian Milos Raonic by 7-6 (4) and 6-1.

The oceanic has bitter return to competition two years after Raonic. The Canadian, who has become Wimbledon finalist and third player in the world, he was absent from the courts for 22 months due to an injury. He came back with a first-round win over Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic but, in his second official game since July 2021, he couldn’t beat Thompson.

Meanwhile, the Australian Alex de Minaure embodied his status as fourth seed by beating Serbian Laslo Djere 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-3, and met the Dutchman Tallon Griekspoorsixth seed, who overthrew the Australian Alexei Popyrin in two sets (6-3 and 6-2).