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After a power failure delayed the start of the
match by more than an hour, Zverev faced two break points in the
second game but then settled down and took command.
One break in each set was enough for the German to clinch his
first win in three career attempts against the Croat.
Zverev advances to a Friday semi-final against Spanish 16th seed
Carreno Busta, who survived a match point to upset South African
sixth seed Anderson 6-4 5-7 7-6(6).
The other semi-final pits Argentine fifth seed Juan Martin del
Potro against American 14th seed John Isner.
Zverev did not use the power failure as an excuse for his slow
start.
"I didn't particularly care," he said, adding that he spent the
time watching an NBA game on a locker room television.
"I think I lost the first six points of the match. It wasn’t the
best start. I’m just happy to get through."
For Carreno Busta, who arrived on court in fine form having
dropped only 12 games over his previous tee matches, the win was
his first in five meetings against Anderson and avenged his
fourth-round Indian Wells loss to the world number eight.
"It was an amazing match, no?" Carreno Busta said.
"He played some unbelievable points, passing shots.
"I lost to him, 7-6 in the third set (at Indian Wells). And
today, well, at the beginning of the match I started playing
really good, returning good, serving good, being very
aggressive."
Anderson saved a pair of match points in the second set and
shifted momentum in his favor but Carreno Busta, seeded 16th at
Crandon Park, regrouped in the decider where the two players
stayed on serve until the tiebreak.
Carreno Busta was staring at defeat when 6-5 down in the
tiebreak but was let off the hook when Anderson missed with a
forehand.
From there the South African pushed a backhand volley wide and
then mishit a second serve that handed the win to Carreno Busta
after two hours, 42 minutes.
Anderson, whose year already includes an ATP Tour title at the
New York Open and runner-up finishes in Acapulco and Pune, has
now lost all 10 of his quarter-final matches at the Masters 1000
level - the highest-tiered tournaments after the four grand
slams.
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina and Frank
Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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