An elimination that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Jannik Sinner's race to the 80th Italian International stops in the eighth round.

The Italian number 1, who started as the eighth favorite of the Roman Masters 1000, succumbed in comeback to the Argentine Francisco Cerundolo. The number 24 seed, who won the third game out of five in the season against top-10 players, won with the score of 6-7(3) 6-2 6-2 and in the next round will play for a place in the semifinals with the Norwegian Casper Ruud, fourth seed, who in his match beat the Serbian Laslo Djere 6-1 6-3.

Lorenzo Musetti recovered his match yesterday, interrupted by bad weather, winning the pass for the eighth round. After the stop for rain at 5-7, 6-4, 2-1, the Tuscan, seeded 18th, closed the third set on 6-3 against the American Frances Tiafoe, number 12 of the draw, giving himself the eighth with the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (5), who settled for 6-3, 7-6 (3) the Turin Lorenzo Sonego.

The march of the tournament favorite, Novak Đoković, continues. The Serbian champion defeated the British Cameron Norrie (13), criticized for some unsporting attitude, with the score of 6-3 6-4 in an hour and a half of play, flying to the quarter-finals of the Internationals for the 17th consecutive time.

It's an incredible record: "Nole" has finished among the top eight of the tournament in each of his participations. On the red of the Foro Italico the Serbian is wonderful, he has won six editions of the tournament and is the reigning champion. In the quarter-finals he will face Denmark's Holger Rune (7), who beat Australian qualifier Alexei Popyrin (6-4 5-7 6-4).

Out of Russian Andrey Rublev (6), who surrendered 7-6(5) 4-6 6-3 to German qualifier Yannick Hanfmann.