Australian Alexei Popyrin is having fun with his greatest run at an ATP hard-court occasion in three years.
Doha, Qatar, 22 February 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Doha, Qatar
Alexei Popyrin has charged into his third profession ATP singles semifinal – and his first on laborious courts since February 2021.
The 24-year-old Australian scored a powerful 6-4 6-4 victory towards world No.21 Alexander Bublik within the quarterfinals at an ATP 250 event in Doha.
“I’m actually pleased with how I dug deep on this match,” Popyrin mentioned. “It was not simple with the wind and he’s not a simple participant to play towards.”
That is Popyrin’s eleventh profession win towards a top-30 participant.
The world No.46 now turns his consideration to a semifinal showdown with world No.17 Karen Khachanov, who’s the final remaining seeded participant within the draw.
Khachanov has received two of their three earlier profession conferences, nonetheless Popyrin triumphed after they final met in October 2023.
In doubles, Australia’s John-Patrick Smith is thru to the semifinals alongside his German accomplice Andreas Mies.
Smith and Mies edged out a 3-6 6-3 [10-8] victory towards world No.20 Jean-Julien Rojer and world No.30 Lloyd Glasspool to proceed their profitable run.
That is world No.67 Smith’s greatest tour-level end result since reaching the semifinals in Sofia final November.
The unseeded Italian mixture of Lorenzo Musetti and Lorenzo Sonego await within the semifinals.
Aussies in motion – Doha
RESULTS
Males’s singles, quarterfinals
Alexei Popyrin (AUS) d [4] Alexander Bublik (KAZ) 6-4 6-4
Males’s doubles, quarterfinals
[Alt] John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER) d Lloyd Glasspool (GBR)/Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 3-6 6-3 [10-8]
COMING UP
Males’s singles, semifinals
Alexei Popyrin (AUS) v [2] Karen Khachanov
Males’s doubles, semifinals
[Alt] John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER) v Lorenzo Musetti (ITA)/Lorenzo Sonego (ITA)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Two Australians – Storm Hunter and Ellen Perez – have superior to the doubles semifinals at a WTA 1000 event in Dubai.
World No.3 Hunter and her Czech accomplice Katerina Siniakova are but to drop a set this week, securing their semifinal spot with a 7-6(3) 6-4 victory towards Japan’s Shuko Aoyoma and Serbian Aleksandra Krunic.
They now play the reigning US Open champions, world No.5 Gabriela Dabrowski and world No.6 Erin Routliffe, for a spot within the ultimate.
The opposite semifinal will characteristic world No.15 Perez and her American accomplice Nicole Melichar-Martinez, after they edged out a hard-fought 6-7(1) 6-4 [12-10] victory towards French duo Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic within the quarterfinals.
World No.4 Laura Siegemund and world No.96 Aliaksandra Sasnovich now stand of their means of progressing to their fourth ultimate as a group at WTA 1000 degree.
This can be a career-best run for each 29-year-old Hunter and 28-year-old Perez in Dubai.
Aussies in motion – Dubai
RESULTS
Ladies’s doubles, quarterfinals
[3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) d [WC] Caroline Garcia (FRA)/Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 6-7(1) 6-4 [12-10]
[4] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) d Shuko Aoyoma (JPN)/Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) 7-6(3) 6-4
COMING UP
Ladies’s doubles, semifinals
[3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v Aliaksandra Sasnovich/Laura Siegemund (GER)
[4] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) v [2] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/Erin Routliffe (NZL)
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