Lorenzo Musetti reached his third tour-level grass-court quarter-final on Wednesday on the BOSS OPEN, the place he clawed previous Germany’s Dominik Koepfer 6-7(9), 7-6(5), 6-3.
The fifth-seeded Italian did not convert 5 set factors within the first set after which rallied from 3/5 within the second-set tie-break to remain alive in Stuttgart. He struck 15 winners within the third set to advance after two hours and 49 minutes.
“It was a very, actually robust match,” Musetti stated. “We noticed two hours and a half of actually good tennis. Dominik was enjoying actually, rather well… We had been preventing till the tip and I’m actually pleased with myself.”
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Along with his thirteenth win of the season, Musetti levelled his Lexus ATP Head2Head collection with Koepfer at 1-1. The No. 30 participant within the PIF ATP Rankings additionally reached the quarter-finals in Stuttgart final 12 months and can goal to go one step additional this week when he subsequent performs Alexander Bublik after the third seed defeated the 2023 Subsequent Gen ATP Finals introduced by PIF champion Hamad Medjedovic 6-1, 7-6(4).
Bublik, who fired 18 aces in opposition to Medjedovic, clinched the most important title of his profession final season on grass on the ATP 500 in Halle.
Defending champion Frances Tiafoe continued his title defence with a 7-5, 7-6(5) win in opposition to German Yannick Hanfmann.
Tiafoe, who beat Struff within the title match final 12 months to win his third ATP Tour crown, saved all 11 break factors he confronted in accordance with Infosys ATP Stats to triumph after one hour and 55 minutes.
The fourth-seeded American holds a modest 13-12 report on the season. He’ll hope he can rediscover his finest degree this week on the German lawns, the place he subsequent takes on Jack Draper or Marcos Giron.
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