Danish fourth seed Holger Rune crashed out of the US Open on Monday, shedding 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 this planet who has by no means been additional than the third spherical at a Grand Slam event, 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 considered 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 12 months, had lashed out at organisers earlier than this event, complaining concerning the choice to position his opening recreation on Court docket No.5 of the USTA’s Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart.

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