Andrey Rublev navigated his second four-setter of the Roland Garros fortnight to advance to the the third round on Thursday. Two years after reaching the quarter-finals in Paris, he is into the third round for the second time behind a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 result over Federico Delbonis.
The Russian dropped the opening set of his Roland Garros campaign against Soonwoo Kwon before storming back to win that match, and was similarly assured after dropping the second against Delbonis on Court Simonne Mathieu.
One break was enough to decide each set, with Rublev grabbing a late second to close out a statement third set. He was four of nine on break chances in the match, and dropped his own serve just once on four break points.
After losing the second set, Rublev regained control of the match by edging ahead 3-0 in the third set and later saved two break points to lead 4-1. He dropped just three points on serve in the fourth, including three love holds, to book a third-round meeting with Cristian Garin.
Garin defeated Ilya Ivashka, 6-3, 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-3, to reach the Roland Garros third round for the third straight year, including a fourth-round showing in 2021. He trails Rublev 0-2 in their ATP Head2Head series, with Rublev winning a pair of 2019 meetings at Wimbledon and Hamburg.
Rublev has won three tour-level titles in 2022 in Marseille, Dubai and Belgrade, putting him level with Rafael Nadal and one behind Carlos Alcaraz for the season's high mark.
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