Fans were doing anything and everything possible to urge Cerundolo on after he lost a closely contested first set.

Casper Ruud approached the umpire and claimed he wasn’t doing “enough” to control the crowd in the middle of his semi-final showdown with Francisco Cerundolo. The No. 14 seed grew frustrated when spectators started calling out before his second serves during a tense, 15-minute game in the second set, and asked the chair official to step in.

Casper Ruud will be the first finalist of the Masters 1000 in Madrid and on Sunday in the final, he might face Musetti. The Norwegian tennis player defeated the Argentine Cerundolo today in two