FILE PHOTO: Tennis - ATP Masters 1000 - Monte Carlo Masters - Monte-Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France - April 18, 2021 Russia's Andrey Rublev in action during the final match against Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
(Reuters) - Andrey Rublev said he had accepted a wild card for Barcelona this week in the belief that his participation in the Monte Carlo Masters would come to a halt against Rafa Nadal in the quarter-finals on Friday.
But the exhausted Russian has now been left with a very quick turnaround after he beat the Spaniard and then went on to reach Sunday's final of the ATP Masters 1000 event, where he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas.
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