Marozsan defeated defending champion Gael Monfils<\/a> in the first round and backed that up with an impressive 6-4, 6-4 win against second seed Ruud. This marks the third opening-round defeat Ruud has suffered in four appearances at the ATP 250 event in Auckland.<\/p>\n Marozsan now leads the Norwegian 2-0 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series. Into his 10th tour-level quarter-final, the Hungarian Marozsan will next meet Eliot Spizzirri<\/a>.<\/p>\n In other action, Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> saved one match point en route to defeating British lefty Cameron Norrie<\/a> 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4). The 22-year-old fended off the danger on serve at 4-5 30\/40 in the third set, eventually prevailing to reach his second consecutive ATP Tour quarter-final of the new season.<\/p>\n He will next play third seed Jakub Mensik<\/a>, who beat Serbian Hamad Medjedovic<\/a> 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n Top seed Ben Shelton<\/a> opened his season with a 7-5, 6-4 win against Francisco Comesana<\/a>. The American, competing for the first time since he made his debut at the Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> in November, saved all six break points he faced against Comesana, according to Infosys ATP Stats, and now holds a perfect 12-0 record against Argentines.<\/p>\n Shelton is playing in Auckland for the fourth consecutive year, with his best result to date a semi-final showing in 2024. The No. 8 player in the PIF ATP Rankings will hope to maintain his impressive record against Argentines when he meets the red-hot Sebastian Baez<\/a> in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n Baez improved to 5-0 on the new season after cruising past Jenson Brooksby<\/a> 7-5, 6-0. The 25-year-old downed Taylor Fritz<\/a> at the United Cup<\/a> last week to earn his second Top 10 win and will look to notch another victory of a similar nature against Shelton, who leads Baez 1-0 in the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series.<\/p>\n Luciano Darderi<\/a> and Spizzirri were also winners on Wednesday in Auckland. Darderi beat Alejandro Tabilo<\/a> 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 to earn his first win since October, while Spizzirri eliminated Nuno Borges<\/a> 7-6(6), 6-4.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Marozsan upsets Ruud, Mpetshi Perricard saves MP in Auckland Shelton advances, Baez continues hot streak January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-407547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u201cATP\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767418027_359_atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\")
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