Casper Ruud, Stefanos Tsitsipas sent packing
Norway's Casper Ruud, the French Open runner-up in 2022 and 2023, crashed out of the tournament in the second round on Wednesday after losing 2-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-0 to unseeded Nuno Borges of Portugal.
Ruud, a clay court specialist, looked to be cruising to an easy win when he bagged the first set 6-2 in 41 minutes.
The 28-year-old Borges roared back, cutting down on errors and sharply increasing his points won on his first and second serve while breaking the seventh seed once.
The World No 41 then steamrolled through the third set courtesy of two back-to-back breaks early on that put him 4-0 up.
To make matters worse Ruud took a medical time-out after the third set with what looked like a calf muscle injury.
He returned to the court, but Borges broke him twice more to finish off the 26-year-old World No. 8 with a bagel.
Borges will play Alexei Popyrin in round three after the Australian eased past Alejandro Tabilo of Chile in straight sets.
Later in the day, Unheralded Matteo Gigante kept the Italian tricolour flying high in the afternoon with the biggest victory of his career as the qualifier sent former finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas tumbling out of the Grand Slam.
Gigante beat 2021 runner-up and 20th seed Tsitsipas 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 to move into the 3rd round.
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