Maden Ousts Hungarian No. 1 Fucsovics

Yannick Maden notched his second ATP World Tour win on Tuesday, defeating local favourite Marton Fucsovics 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 at the Gazprom Hungarian Open. The lucky loser needed two hours and 22 minutes to upset the Hungarian No.1, saving eight of the 11 break points he faced to clinch the victory.

Maden, whose only previous win at tour-level came at the 2017 Moselle Open (d. Kicker), broke the sixth seed on five occasions to set up a meeting with countryman Maximilian Marterer.

Marterer also came back from a set down to beat Serbia’s Viktor Troicki 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. The German was solid behind both his first and second serve, winning 67 and 68 per cent of points respectively, to beat the three-time ATP World Tour titlist.

German Jan-Lennard Struff recovered from a slow start to beat Estonia’s Jurgen Zopp 2-6, 6-4, 7-5. The seventh seed, who pushed Alexander Zverev to three sets at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, hit 10 aces throughout the one-hour, 44-minute encounter to set up a clash with Alexander Bublik for a place in the quarter-finals. Bublik overcame the disappointment of failing to convert set points in the opening set to edge past Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin 6-7(6), 7-6(5), 7-5.

Nikoloz Basilashvili also clinched an opening-round win, defeating Italy’s Paolo Lorenzi 6-4, 6-2 in 81 minutes. The Georgian hit five aces and conceded just five points on his second serve (16/21) to set a meeting with Canadian fourth seed Denis Shapovalov.

Andreas Seppi defeated countryman Thomas Fabbiano 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 to reach the last 16. The 34-year-old, who reached the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters third round (l. to Nishikori), dropped just five points on serve in the first set before coming back in two hours and 25 minutes to advance.

The No. 8 seed will meet either Zsombor Piros or Mikhail Youzhny in the quarter-finals. Youzhny was set to serve for the match at 6-3, 5-3 before play was suspended due to darkness.

Did You Know?
At the 2018 Australian Open, Marton Fucsovics became the first Hungarian to reach the last 16 at a Grand Slam since Balazs Taroczy at 1984 Roland Garros.