Alex de Minaur's bid to win the Paris Masters is over, his hopes shattered in another physically gruelling battle with tough young Dane Holger Rune.
Jordan Thompson's first appearance in a Masters 1000 quarter-final also ended in disappointment as a partisan crowd cheered home his French conqueror Ugo Humbert in Bercy on Friday night (Saturday AEDT).
The duo had been only the second Australian men's pair in the last 20 years to get to the last-eight of the singles in the same Masters event after Alexei Popyrin and Max Purcell in Cincinnati last year.