Argentinian tennis player Francisco Cerúndolo (19th) continues his triumphant path and defeated Frenchman Ugo Humbert (34th) to advance to the quarter-finals of the Miami Masters 1000, the second of this category held in the season. Francisco Cerúndolo remains the best national racket still alive in the Miami Masters 1000: according to the Argentine News Agency, he defeated Ugo Humbert 6-4 and 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals. With a high-level game, a forehand that gets closer every day to that of the world's best and renewed confidence, Cerúndolo advanced to the tournament's quarter-finals for the fourth time in his career. The statistics of the match between Cerúndolo and Humbert. Argentine News Agency/SofaScore. The dream of winning a Masters 1000 remains intact and is accompanied by a high performance from the Argentine in Miami, a tournament in which he usually shows his best version. The match began with the pressure of having to defend the points obtained last year, when he fell in the quarter-finals against Grigor Dimitrov, but Cerúndolo did not seem to feel it: after a start marked by the aggressiveness of Humbert's serve — he even had to save a break point — the Argentine settled from 3-3 and achieved the only break of the first set with a great drop shot. During the match, he showed good reading of the opponent's second serve and began to return with much acceleration. He sought his backhand, hit the decisive winner, and unleashed a wild and deserved celebration of joy upon qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Miami Masters 1000. One of his best plays was the point before the first break: a cross backhand that opened the court and allowed him to finish with a parallel forehand winner. After closing the first set with that cross backhand, the 27-year-old player did not lose momentum in the second set and started it with a new break, favored by a double fault from Humbert. With a 2-0 lead, a period of doubts followed: Cerúndolo wasted a breakpoint, saw his rival grow, and lost a break point. But he showed maturity to lift that situation, stay with that game and the next on serve, and then receive to win the match. He needed only one match point with the Frenchman's serve and repeated the formula that gave him results throughout the match: playing with a lot of ball speed against Humbert's second serve.
