The 20-year-old took some time to interact with followers on social media after making it to the second round of the Charleston Open.
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Canadian tennis player Leylah Fernandez admitted she also has a crush on a famous person in the entertainment business. The 20-year-old took some time to interact with followers on social media after making it to the second round of the Charleston Open. She then confessed her adoration for a well-known actor who is a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tom Holland, as per tennisuptodate.com. “I dont know, probably Tom Holland,” Leylah Fernandez said in response to a fan question.
Alexander Zverev defeated Alexander Bublik 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 to begin his clay-court season on a winning note. The German, who was playing on the surface for the first time since retiring from his 2022 Roland Garros semi-final match against Rafael Nadal due to an injury to his right ankle, overcame a sluggish start to beat Bublik in an hour and 58 minutes. As the first-round match progressed, the 13th seed on Court Rainier III moved more fluidly. He made nine unforced errors while slipping into shots to score 21 goals and record his ninth victory of the year.
“It felt awful at times to be honest, but he made me feel awful,” Zverev said. “Tactically he played well, he didn’t let me play my game at all. He didn’t let me have my rhythm and he almost won the match, just a few points here and there. I have had two weeks of practice now. It is the most natural surface for me. It usually takes me five or 10 minutes to get used to a clay court, but this year was a bit different. I needed to get the injury out of my head. I needed to get used to sliding again.”
At the Monte-Carlo Masters on Tuesday, Andrey Rublev escaped danger in the second round to win his 250th match at the tour-level. At the clay-court competition, the fifth seed overcame a set deficit to defeat Spaniard Jaume Munar 4-6, 6-2, 6-2. Rublev, who advanced to the Principality final in 2021, outclassed Munar after two hours and twelve minutes by clubbing 36 winners and breaking Munar’s serve six times. After dropping the first set, they made a strong comeback.
“The feeling was, ‘No way, I might be out in the first round of Monaco.’ Then, I don’t know, I started to feel I had to change something, I had to play more aggressive,” Rublev said in his on-court interview. “I cannot just push the ball because in the end he [was] running much better than me and in the end he [was] waiting for the right moment and he changed much easier [the direction] because I [was] not putting pressure on him.”
The 25-year-old is now up 2-1 against the 83rd-ranked Spaniard in the world and will next play either qualifier Ilya Ivashka, Karen Khachanov, or Daniel Evans. Khachanov defeated 2022 Monte-Carlo finalist Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2, earlier in the day. The World No. 11 has advanced to the semi-finals in Miami earlier this month and has won five of his last six games.
