Danish fourth seed Holger Rune crashed out of the US Open on Monday, dropping in 4 units to Spanish journeyman Roberto Carballes Baena. Rune, overwhelmed within the quarter-finals of Wimbledon by Carlos Alcaraz, succumbed 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in 2hr 42min. Carballes Baena, a clay-court specialist ranked 63rd on the planet who has by no means been additional than the third spherical at a Grand Slam match, will face both Russia’s Aslan Karatsev or the Czech Republic’s Jiri Lehecka within the second spherical.

The defeat was the most recent in a collection of disappointing early exits for Rune, the 20-year-old thought to be one of many brightest younger skills in males’s tennis.

Since his quarter-final loss to Alcaraz at Wimbledon, Rune has suffered first spherical losses on the Canadian Open, the Cincinnati Open and now the US Open.

The younger Dane, who reached the third spherical of the US Open final yr, had lashed out at organisers earlier than this match, complaining in regards to the determination to put his opening sport on Court No.5 of the USTA’s Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Against Carballes Baena on Monday, Rune was all the time struggling to seek out his rhythm, racking up 43 unforced errors and