The brothers Francisco and Juan Manuel Cerú advance it together and encourage them in Madrid: “It’s great to share this” | ATP Tour

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The brothers closing it together and encouraging themselves in Madrid: “It’s great to share this”

Francisco and Juan Manuel will seek to advance in the Spanish capital this Sunday

April 26, 2025

When Francisco and Juan Manuel Cerundolo speak of each other something changes on their faces, a particular tune of brothers comes on and the smiles and good omens abound. And if the successes are shared and simultaneous, the joy is multiplied without a paragon, and that is happening this week at the Mutua Madrid Open.

While their play styles on the court can be diametrically opposite, and their personalities and realities have also traveled different paths in the tour, since childhood hill them have always had much in common and, above all, the passion for tennis. Fran, more passionate and spontaneous, Juanma, more thinking and measured, but the rackets have always been their common language,

Now, after facing for the first time at the Tour at the ATP level at the last Argentina Open in Madrid, both have shared the third round of an ATP Masters 1000 from Miami, in 2022. What does it mean for them? “It’s great,” starts ‘Fran’ with a smile.

“There were three years of the last time … At that time, they were our first victories in Masters 1000, in other circumstances, but it is great to be in third round the two, with a chance to continue moving forward,” he defined, before being measured before his compatriot and friend Francisco Comesaña.

“It is nice for our tennis and well, hopefully it is repeated: that he continues to move forward and that I can reach another semifinal or more,” Francisco predicted, who was in the box supporting his brother in the first round and, before Félix August-Aliassime, the development was attentive after winning his R2 party.

“It is fair that I won and that he also won … I hope we can continue advancing. The time of Miami was my first time in third of a 1000 Masters and his as well, but now we hope to continue moving forward,” returned ‘Juanma’, who, after coming from the previous one, will now seek to surprise Daniil Medvedev.

Ceruing them, thus, they travel one path each in their time, even in somewhat disparate realities, and enjoy as nobody when they manage to cross the tournaments. How better it is with victories and with the open illusion for both.