MELBOURNE – Never-say-die fifth seed Andrey Rublev admitted on Monday he was “lucky” after saving two match points to topple Danish teen Holger Rune in a roller-coaster five sets and book a place in the Australian Open quarter-finals. In a battle of two former junior...
“Yeah, was lucky. I don’t know if it was a present. Especially from 5-2 , somehow I was able to win. I started to think it was over.”Victory put the 25-year-old into the Melbourne quarter-finals for a second time and the last eight for a seventh occasion at Grand Slams.He described beating Rune as “not like a roller coaster, it’s like they put a gun to your head. A roller coaster is easier”.
Undaunted, Rune clung on in a see-sawing 12-minute opening game in set two and turned the tables to break Rublev for a 3-1 lead, which he never relinquished. In a battle of attrition, Rune ground down Rublev to move to 5-2 in the decider, but he failed to serve out for the match. With young gun Ben Shelton winning a five-set battle against compatriot J. J. Wolf, and Sebastian Korda advancing on Sunday, Tommy Paul ensured three American men will contest the quarter-finals for the first time since 2000.
“I’m really happy playing an American in the quarters, there’s going to be an American in the semis.”
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