Alexei Popyrin bows out tamely at French Open following straight-sets loss to Tommy Paul

Alexei Popyrin may discover no method by way of Tommy Paul because the Australian males’s problem on the French Open got here to an finish within the Roland-Garros sunshine.

Popyrin by no means seemed like greedy the chance to earn his first quarterfinal look at a significant, succumbing 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 on Court docket Suzanne-Lenglen in a one-sided fourth-round match.

Paul will face both US compatriot Ben Shelton or Spain’s defending champion and second seed, Carlos Alcaraz, within the quarterfinals.

Outplayed by world quantity 12 Paul in all departments, it was an enormous disappointment for twenty fifth seed Popyrin, who had been hoping to go no less than one spherical additional than final 12 months’s US Open.

Popyrin defeated Novak Djokovic earlier than falling within the spherical of 16 to Frances Tiafoe in New York final September.

In Paris, Popyrin’s exit after one hour and 51 minutes on court docket meant Daria Kasatkina is the final Australian standing within the singles attracts.

Kasatkina — contesting her first main since gaining everlasting Australian residency — faces Russian teenage sensation Mirra Andreeva within the final 16 within the girls’s draw.

She superior from the third spherical by way of a 6-1, 7-5 defeat of former world quantity two Paula Badosa.

Kasatkina’s victory had meant there have been Australians within the fourth spherical of each the ladies’s and males’s singles attracts in the identical 12 months for the primary time in 37 years.

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