Barcelona:
Hallgar Ron successfully ended the title defense of Caspar Road in Barcelona against the defending champions in the quarter-finals on Friday.
World No.13 Ron broke the road twice in each set as he defeated Norway at 10th second in eight efforts.
Russian Spain’s Elejandro Davidovich Fukina will face Karen Kharanov in the semi-finals after controlling 6-4, 7-5 on Fukina.
Top seed Carlos Alcaraz continued his struggle for the third Barcelona title in four years against Australian Alex de More on Friday. In the tournament, four -time runner -up Stephanos Testspass played the French Arthur files in the last eight.
Through the Final Four in Shelton Munich
World No. 15 Ben Shelton Munich is in the semi -finals of the ATP event after winning the straight seats against the Italian Luciano Darderi on Friday.
Shelton won 6-4, 6-3 in an hour and 14 minutes, and in the Final Four, a meeting with Argentina’s Francisco Serndolo, which ranks 22nd in the world.
After the Sammy race at the Australian Open in January, the 22 -year -old arrived in the final four this year, where he lost the last winner in the set of Janak Signner. After the win, Shelton, the seed of number two in Munich, found his father Brian in the crowd and said in the microphone, “We returned, the Big Dog”.
He added, “I feel great roaming, slipping, entering drop shots, defending, playing aggressive games. I was like a deer on the ice a few years ago, but I am definitely ready.”
“I’m not the player I want to be right now but I’m definitely working towards it.”
Serindulu also came in straight seats on the mud, which won 6-2, 6-4 in an hour and 15 minutes. Later, on Friday, German World No. 3 Alexander Zurio continued his bid to return to Sammy for the first time after winning a back -to -back title in Munich in 2017 and 2018, when he competed with the Netherlands’ Telon Grexpur.
