The only lightening of French tennis with absent subscribers since the coronavirus crisis, Ugo Humbert lost on Friday, November 6 against the Canadian Milos Raonic in the quarter-finals of the Paris-Bercy tournament. Despite two match points in the tie-break of the decisive set, the young Messin, the last French representative in the Paris Masters 1000, ended up giving in, on a final ace, against the power of the former world number three.
At 22, Humbert, who remained on a series of eight consecutive victories, would run after a first semi-final in the Masters 1000. Little by little, the left-hander from Lorraine nevertheless rose through the ranks of the world hierarchy for his second full season this year. only on the major circuit, which he should finish around thirtieth place, the best ranking of his young and promising career.
Winner in Auckland in January before the covid-19 pandemic, the Lorrain won at the Antwerp tournament in October, and is showing more and more at ease against top 10 players, as evidenced by his wins against Russian Daniil Medvedev (5e world) in mid-September in Hamburg and against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (6e) this week in Paris.
For a place in the final, Raonic will face Medvedev on Saturday, striker of Argentinian Diego Schwartzman (9e) 6-3, 6-1 earlier today.
