Madrid Open 2026 Day Nine Recap

Day 9 on the Mutua Madrid Open produced two very completely different quarter-finals, with one main upset and one dominant show from a prime seed.

The principle story was Alexander Blockx persevering with his run by defeating defending champion Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4 to achieve his first Masters 1000 semi-final.

In the meantime, Alexander Zverev cruised previous Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 6-4 to e book his place within the final 4 for the fourth time in Madrid.

Listed here are the quarter-final outcomes, stats and highlights from Day 9:

Day 9 2026 Madrid Open Quarter Last Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Rating

Alexander Blockx
(12) Casper Ruud
6-4 6-4

(2) Alexander Zverev
(10) Flavio Cobolli
6-1 6-4

Match Recap

Alexander Blockx def. (12) Casper Ruud 6-4 6-4

Alexander Blockx produced the most important results of his younger profession on Thursday, defeating defending champion Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4 to achieve his first ATP Masters 1000 semi-final.

The 21-year-old Belgian qualifier continued his clay-court surge with a composed and high-quality efficiency.

Ruud, who had regarded first rate earlier within the match and took out the bettering Tsitsipas, couldn’t discover his ordinary rhythm and was unable to create many alternatives on return.

I believed he struggled to give you a coherent sport plan to disrupt Blockx; it was simply crazy forehands into the backhand wing, and he didn’t look able to hurting him from the baseline, which is worrying once you supposedly have a heavy forehand.

Blockx broke early within the first set with a superb spinning drop shot and maintained management all through, changing 3 out of seven break factors whereas staying stable on his personal serve.

This victory marks Blockx’s fourth win in opposition to a Prime 20 participant this month alone (after beforehand beating Auger-Aliassime and Francisco Cerúndolo in Madrid, plus Cobolli in Monte Carlo).

Match Stats

Key Stats
Casper Ruud
Alexander Blockx

Winners
19
19

Unforced Errors
23
16

Aces
1
2

Double Faults
1
3

1st Serve %
68% (42/62)
51% (33/65)

1st Serve Factors Gained
60% (25/42)
85% (28/33)

2nd Serve Factors Gained
50% (10/20)
44% (14/32)

Break Factors Saved
57% (4/7)
67% (2/3)

Service Video games
70% (7/10)
90% (9/10)

1st Return Factors Gained
15% (5/33)
40% (17/42)

2nd Return Factors Gained
56% (18/32)
50% (10/20)

Break Factors Gained
33% (1/3)
43% (3/7)

Return Video games
10% (1/10)
30% (3/10)

Strain Factors
50% (5/10)
50% (5/10)

Service Factors
56% (35/62)
65% (42/65)

Return Factors
35% (23/65)
44% (27/62)

Internet Factors
72% (13/18)
85% (11/13)

Complete Factors
46% (58/127)
54% (69/127)

Match Factors Saved
3
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Max Factors In A Row
6
8

Complete Video games
40% (8/20)
60% (12/20)

Max Video games In A Row
2
3

Highlights

Alexander Zverev def. (10) Flavio Cobolli 6-1 6-4

Alexander Zverev produced a dominant efficiency to achieve the semi-finals of the Madrid Open, defeating Flavio Cobolli in straight units.

Simply 12 days after dropping to the Italian within the Munich semi-finals, Zverev flipped the script utterly with a scientific show on Manolo Santana Stadium.

He was rock stable on serve (dropping simply 7 factors behind his first serve) and dictated play from the baseline, racing by means of the primary set 6-1 and sustaining management within the second to shut it out 6-4 in 90 minutes.

The German regarded sharp and targeted all through, placing eight aces within the first set alone and infrequently permitting Cobolli any rhythm.

Cobolli struggled to actually disrupt Zverev from the baseline, displaying little selection in his sport and as an alternative opting to tee off on most of his pictures, which didn’t actually work. He performed higher within the second set, and had two break possibilities when Zverev had his typical wobble when attempting to shut it out, however couldn’t convert.