Another three sets victory for Rune: now he eliminated Ugo Humbert at Australian Open

Holger Rune won his match against Ugo Humbert and advances to the fourth round of the Australian Open

The number nine seed is one of the young stars on the tour, who already made a name for himself among the best in the world. Last year he finished in the top-10 and there were high expectations for his performance at the first major of the year, despite his loss in the first round of Adelaide at the start of the season.

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He has carried out all his matches in Melbourne. In the third round he had to overcome former world 25th Ugo Humbert. The Dane had a 67% first serve but was very effective, winning 82% of them. For his part the Frenchman presented a 67% first serve, winning 67% of them.

The first two sets showed the No. 10's vast superiority, winning handily 6-4, 6-2. However, the third set showed a slightly more aggressive Humbert, who played at a good level and took the third set to a tie-break. Finally, Rune prevailed with his serve and won the set 7-6 (5).

The young star went through difficult times when it seemed that he had sprained his ankle, but after the match he reassured the public, ruling out a major injury: “I’m healthy, nothing is dangerous, I’m just gonna do my recovered due to i can be as good as possible for the next match.”

In the next round he must faces the 5th seed Andrey Rublev, who defeated Daniel Evans in 3 sets:

“He's also playing extremely good, his forehand, we all know is very strong and he is really solid from the baseline, he doesn't have any weakness so I really have to play aggressive, play like I did the first three matches and go for it. It's going to be another exciting match”.

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