Kent carlsson

ATP Live Race To Jeddah: Frenchman Arthur Fils maintained his chances of turning consistency into the biggest title of his career as he made it to the quarterfinals of the Hamburg Open, the ATP 500 event being played on clay. The French star surged ahead into the last-eight stage with a 7-6(3), 6-2 triumph against 2023 finalist Laslo Djere. Fils, who himself reached the semifinals in Hamburg a year ago, has now reached six tour-level quarterfinals this season.

Awaiting the Frenchman in the last eight will be second seed Holger Rune, who enjoyed a straight sets win of his own against Marco Trungelliti.

Fils was in trouble at 4-4, 15/40 in the opening set of his first ATP head-to-head clash with Djere. The 20-year-old dug deep to hold serve from there, however, and went on to dominate the first-set tie-break before racing through the second set.