The remaining quarter -final places on the Toronto Masters 1000 are handed out on Sunday, when Andrey Rublev goes against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. Taylor Fritz and Jiri Lehecka are also in action.
(6) Andrey Rublev vs. (20) Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Davidovich Fokina simply doesn’t slide. The 19th rank Spaniard comes from a second performance in Washington, DC, where he defeated Taylor Fritz in three hours and four minutes, made Ben Shelton upset in the semi -final and then lost to Alex the Minaur in another three -hour thriller of three championship points. Impressive is Davidovich Fokina immediately back in acceleration at the National Bank Open to defeat both Corentin Moutet and Jakub Mensik in straight sets.
The next for the number 20 seed on Sunday is a seventh meeting with Rublev, which leads the head-to-head series 5-1. Davidovich Fokina, however, won their most recent game via a 7-5, 6-4 decision earlier this season in the red clay of Barcelona. Rublev has turned Hugo Gaston and Lorenzo Sonego so far in Toronto, but for the most part this campaign of 2025 has been a struggle. Davidovich Fokina has the hot hand and will also take faith of his recent victory over the Russian.
Pick: Davidovich Fokina and 3
(19) Jiri Lehecka vs. (2) Taylor Fritz
Despite his debilitating loss for Davidovich Fokina in Washington, DC, few players on tour nowadays hotter than Fritz. The fourth ranking made a run to the semi-finals of Wimbledon (lost to Carlos Alcaraz in a fourth set of Tiebreker) and he is 4-1 on this North American hard-Court Swing. Toronto’s no. 2 Seed is through to the last 16 thanks to straight defeats of Roberto Carballes Baena and an in-shape Gabriel Diallo.
In Fritz’s away from the neighborhoods, Lehecka, who is wiped 3-0 in the head-to-head series. Fritz is 6-1 in total sets after the most recently prevailing 7-6 (14), 6-2 at the same time of the year in 2023 at the Cincinnati Masters. This is just a bad matchup for Lehecka, because Fritz can get just as big as he does from both wings and is much more consistent. The 27th arranged Czech has been enormously inconsistent since a hot start of the season, and that trend will probably continue in this.
Pick: Fritz in 2
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