Madrid: Britain’s Kyle Edmund followed up his surprise win over Novak Djokovic by beating Belgium’s David Goffin on Thursday to march into the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open.
Edmund had lost in five sets to Goffin when they last met, also on clay, in the 2015 Davis Cup but the 23-year-old’s rise has been sharp since then and this was a completely different contest.
The Briton won it 6-3, 6-3, breaking Goffin’s serve twice in the first set and once in the second, to move into the last eight of an ATP Masters 1000 event for the first time in his career.
Goffin is no slouch on clay. He reached the French Open quarter-finals last year and made the semis in Barcelona earlier this month. He is also only the second top-10 player Edmund has beaten, coming four months after the Yorkshireman ousted world number three Grigor Dimitrov at the Australian Open.
Djokovic, recently back from injury, is currently under-ranked at 12th.
