Montpellier Open: Top seed Rune moves into semi-final
Holger Rune beat Michael Mmoh 7-6 (6), 6-4 on Friday evening. He’ll play the winner of the match between Croat Borna Coric, the No 4 seed, and Italian Flavio Cobolli in the next round
Holger Rune in Montpellier
Dane Holger Rune, the top seed, defeated American Michael Mmoh 7-6 (6), 6-4 to move into the last 4 of the Montpellier Open at the Sud de France Arena on Friday evening.
Rune, ranked No 7, will face the winner of the match between Croat Borna Coric, the No 4 seed, and Italian Flavio Cobolli next, in what will be his 15th tour-level semi-final.
He has been top seed in six ATP tournaments and reached at least the semi-finals in five of them.
Ahead of his victory, the 20-year-old Dane won against Spanish qualifier Pablo Llamas Ruiz (7-5, 6-2).
Mmoh, ranked No 133, won against Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi (6-3, 7-5) and Frenchman Alexandre Muller, the No 7 seed (6-4, 6-4) earlier in the tournament.
Montpellier ATP 250, other last 8 results (Sud de France Arena, hard, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):
- Borna Coric vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Felix Auger-Aliassime (3) beat Harold Mayot (WC): 7-5, 6-1
- Alexander Bublik (2) beat Alexander Shevchenko (6): 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
People in this post
More tennis news
Serena back in singles draws? “I probably will play again, I have to”
Fritz gives Blanch nothing, and Blanch can’t enjoy his wild-card once again
Cobolli wins from two sets down for the first time in his career, at the ninth attempt
Keys gets past the round that ended her US Open last year: the first
How much longer will Novak Djokovic put himself through the pain? Only he can know and only he can decide
