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Munar reaches the best streak of his career against members of the top 20

The Spanish beat Shelton in 2nd Ronda de Rome. Korda, next rival

May 10, 2025

Jaume Munar had never been so comfortable against Top 20 players as in 2025. So much so that this Saturday at the Internal Bnl d’Italia, he has arrived for the first time in his career a undefeated three games before these types of players.

After beating No. 8 Daniil Medvedev in Miami and No. 18 Frances Tiafoe in Barcelona, ​​the Spanish has surprised another player of this species, No. 13 Ben Shelton and with partials of 6-2, 6-1. His last defeat against a Top 20 was in February at the ATP 500 of Dallas, and after falling into the third set of the third set against Casper Ruud.

Before 2025, Munar had eight victories in his career before members of the Top 20. And the last one had been against Lorenzo Musetti in February 2023. Now he has five in the current season, in which he has also defeated the then No. 17 Musetti (Hong Kong) and his executioner this Saturday (Dallas).

Thanks to overcome the American for the second time in the season, the Spanish now leads 2-1 the Lexus ATP Headtohead between them. In addition, he achieves his victory No. 70 in clay at the ATP Tour. The most surprising thing is the way he has achieved this Saturday.

BREATHER AGAINST: 0⃣
You break the rest: 5⃣

🇪🇸 @jamunar_38 Surprise with your 6-2 victory, 6-1 against 🇺🇸 Shelton in the @Intebnlditalia 🔥pic.twitter.com/VBF8k2wCXN

– ATP Tour en Español (@atppour_es) May 10, 2025

Before one of the best serve players in the circuit, No. 66 of the PIF ATP Ranking has broken in five of twelve possible opportunities. In addition, he saved the only Break Point he faced in the 78 -minute match.

“It has been a strange game,” said the 28 -year -old Spanish after the meeting. “Surely Ben did not play his best tennis. I only tried to maintain my level, to be solid what could be most concentrated. That was the greatest key today. It has not been the best performance, but I have been very solid.”

His next opponent, for a place in eighths of a 1000 Masters for the second time in his career (and first since Madrid 2023), Munar will face another American, Sebastian Korda. Serial head No. 22 comes from beating 6-3, 6-4 to Australian Aleksandar Vukic. Korda leads 1-0 the history with Munar after beating him in Gijón 2022.

In other results of the day, the Bolivian Hugo Dellien won his third victory as a main box of Masters 1000, and first since Rome 2021, after beating 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild.

No. 103 of the PIF ATP Rankings had ultimately fallen from the ‘qualy’ against Vilius Gaubas, but the decrease due to the injury of Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime allowed the South American tennis player to enter as ‘Lucky Loser’.

With the second opportunity used, the Bolivian will seek his first advance to eighths at this level when he measures the Australian Álex de Miñaur, seventh head of the series and who comes from beating the local Luca Nardi 6-4, 7-5.