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Hurkacz also won 45 of 54 first-service points (83.3 percent)
and saved all four break points he faced against the three-time
Grand Slam winner. He will face Peter Gojowczyk in the
semifinals after the German rallied to beat American Marcos
Giron 3-6, 6-1, 6-3.
Nos. 2 and 3 seeds Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain and Gael Monfils
of France also reached the semis Friday. Carreno Busta knocked
out Denmark's Holger Rune 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, and Monfils topped No.
8 seed Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia 6-3, 6-3.
Astana Open
No. 2 seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan and No. 8 seed Ilya
Ivashka of Belarus reached the semifinals with wins Friday at
Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
Bublik defeated Spain's Carlos Taberner 6-3, 6-4, while Ivashka
bounced back after dropping an early set to beat Finland's Emil
Ruusuvuori 4-6, 6-4, 6-1. Ruusuvuori was a day removed from
upsetting No. 1 seed Aslan Karatsev of Russia.
Friday also included two upsets: Australian James Duckworth
toppled countryman and No. 5 seed John Millman 6-4, 6-4, and
South Korea's Soonwoo Kwon outlasted Serbian seventh seed Laslo
Djere 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-0. In the semis, Bublik will battle Kwon
and Ivashka will draw Duckworth.
Laver Cup
Team Europe swept three singles matches against Team World and
built a 3-1 lead on the opening day of the three-day event in
Boston.
Andrey Rublev and Matteo Berrettini each won in three sets while
Casper Ruud was a straight-sets winner in the uniquely scored
event.
Rublev, of Russia, defeated Argentina's Diego Schwartzman 4-6,
6-3, 11-9. Berrettini, of Italy, edged Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassame
6-7 (3), 7-5, 10-8. In this event, when players split the first
two sets, the third set becomes a 10-point match tiebreaker.
Ruud, of Norway, slipped past American Reilly Opelka 6-3, 7-6
(4). In the only doubles match of the day, American John Isner
and Canadian Denis Shapovalov rallied past Berrettini and
Germany's Alexander Zverev 4-6, 7-6 (2), 10-1.
--Field Level Media
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