Madrid Masters 2025: Serundolo defeated Zverev to reach the quarterfinals, setting a record

The 26-year-old Argentine player Francisco Cerundolo defeated Germany's top seed Zverev 7:5, 6:3 at the ATP1000-level 2025 Madrid Tennis Masters on the 29th local time and accepted the men's singles top 8 tickets.

26-year-old Argentine ace Cerundolo

Zverev, who is temporarily ranked No. 2 in the men's singles world, won the title in Munich last time, but it is always good to meet Serundolo, who lost in the fourth round of Madrid last year and the top 8 in Buenos Aires this year, and lost this meeting, swallowing three consecutive defeats against each other, and also ending the recent seven-game winning streak.

Cerundolo, currently ranked 21st in the world, has reached the quarterfinals for the seventh time this season, and has become the second player to reach the last eight of the Masters three times this season after France's rising star Arthur Fils, and is currently the top player on clay this season with 15 wins.

Commenting on his breakthrough on clay this season, Cerundolo pointed out that the biggest key is learning to win even when he is not in good form, and he will next face Czech teenager Jakub Mensik for a place in the last four, which he won in straight sets against last year's hard court meeting in Beijing.