Shevchenko stuns defending champion Ruud in Stockholm as Fritz beats Norrie

Defending champion Casper Ruud is out of the Stockholm Open after qualifier Aleksandr Shevchenko beat him 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-3 in the second round on Wednesday, 11 November. On the same day, top seed Taylor Fritz beat Cameron Norrie 7-5, 6-3, and Ugo Humbert and Alejandro Tabilo also reached the quarter-finals of the indoor ATP 250 event.

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Shevchenko knocks out the champion

Ruud, the second seed, had a first-round bye and was playing his first match of the week. He won the opening set in a tie-break, but Shevchenko took control from there. The ATP Tour reported that the Kazakh, ranked No. 107, hit 50 winners in a match that lasted two hours and 17 minutes. Ruud had won the title here last year, beating Humbert in the final.

The ATP said it was Shevchenko's second top-20 win of 2026, after he beat Ben Shelton at the Miami Masters. "It's one of the biggest [wins of my career], that's for sure," the 25-year-old told the ATP Tour. Former world No. 10 Ernests Gulbis was in his box.

Shevchenko came through two rounds of qualifying and then beat lucky loser Adrian Mannarino 6-1, 6-3 on Tuesday, as we reported in our Tuesday round-up. This is his third tour-level quarter-final of the season. He meets Argentina's Thiago Agustin Tirante, who reached the last eight on a walkover.

Fritz saves two set points against Norrie

The meeting between Fritz and Norrie was closer than the score suggests. According to the ATP Tour, Norrie broke early and served for the first set at 5-4, with two set points. Fritz saved both and won four games in a row from 3-5 to take the set. In the second, he lost only one point behind his first serve.

The American now leads their head-to-head 9-6, according to the ATP and Ubitennis. It is also his 11th quarter-final of the season and his fourth in four weeks, after reaching the final in Lyon, the semi-finals in Basel and the quarter-finals in Paris, where he held two match points against Carlos Alcaraz and lost.

Fritz, back in Stockholm for the first time in five years, will next play Holger Rune. The 2022 champion recovered from a set down to beat Miomir Kecmanovic 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 later in the evening. Rune is playing only his fifth ATP Tour event of 2026 after an Achilles injury suffered at this tournament last year kept him out for 11 months.

Humbert sets up a first meeting with Musetti

Last year's runner-up Ugo Humbert needed only two sets to end the run of Croatian qualifier Borna Gojo, winning 6-2, 6-4.

Gojo had won three matches to get this far, including a 6-3, 6-4 win over Tomas Machac in the first round. Humbert is ranked No. 39, according to Tennis Majors. His next opponent is third seed Lorenzo Musetti, the Lyon champion, and Tennis Majors confirmed that the two have never played each other on tour.

Tabilo wins a near three-hour battle

The longest match of the day went to fourth seed Alejandro Tabilo, who beat qualifier Lorenzo Sonego 7-6(2), 6-7(7), 7-5 in two hours and 53 minutes, according to the ATP. Sonego won a long second-set tie-break to force a decider, but Tabilo took the decider 7-5.

The win ended a four-match losing streak for the Chilean, Tennis Majors reported. It is his 16th tour-level quarter-final and his sixth of the season. He faces sixth seed Alex Michelsen, who won their only previous meeting 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Miami Masters in March.

What it means

Ruud's exit removes the second seed and leaves Fritz and Musetti as the two highest seeds in the draw. With Shevchenko and Tirante meeting in one quarter-final, at least one semi-finalist will be unseeded. The quarter-final line-up: Fritz against Rune, Musetti against Humbert, Tabilo against Michelsen and Shevchenko against Tirante.