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[ad_1] MONTE CARLO: French Open finalist Casper Ruud bowed out of the Monte Carlos Masters on Thursday suffering a 6-1, 7-6 (8/6) third-round defeat to German Jan-Lennard Struff who has beaten the Norwegian on all three occasions they have met. The 100th-ranked Struff -- who came through the qualifiers -- will play the winner of the all-Russian battle between Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov in the quarter-finals. Ruud was on a run of nine successive victories on clay -- having won in Gstaad last July and then Estoril last Sunday -- but he looked out of sorts in Monaco. The world number four -- who also reached the US Open final last year -- saved two match points and battle back from 5-2 down to lead 6-5 in the second set but Struff levelled. The German then took a hard fought tie-break -- Ruud saving a third match point -- when the Norwegian sent a return out to reach the last eight. Ruud was not the only Grand Slam losing finalist to exit in the last 16. Matteo Berre

[ad_1] Britain's Liam Broady said he had realised his dream after shocking Wimbledon fourth seed Casper Ruud , admitting he had been haunted by a painful defeat in the boy's final 12 years ago. The wild card held his nerve when trailing two sets to one against the French Open finalist, rallying to win the second-round clash on Centre Court 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-0. Norway's Ruud, who has been runner-up at Roland Garros in the past two years, was also the beaten finalist at the US Open last year. But the 24-year-old has never gone beyond the second round at the All England Club. Broady, 142 in the world rankings, took a medical time out at the end of the fourth set to change some bandaging on his wrist. But the 29-year-old came out fit and firing in the evening sunshine, demolishing Ruud 6-0 in the decider before soaking up the applause from the partisan crowd. "It feels good," said Broady. "Because obviously as a junior, I was a very good junior. I