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Fritz recorded eight aces en route to posting a
6-3, 6-4 win over Bedene in one hour, 25 minutes. He advanced to
face third-seeded Italian Lorenzo Sonegro, who benefited from
eight double faults by Yannick Hanfmann of Germany to rally to a
3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3 victory in two hours, 43 minutes.
Also on Friday, Laslo Djere of Serbia took advantage of eight
double faults by Italian teenager Lorenzo Musetti to secure a
6-4, 4-6, 6-2 win in two hours, 43 minutes.
Djere's semifinal opponent will by fourth-seeded Nikoloz
Basilashvili of Georgia. Basilashvili overcame 12 aces by
fifth-seeded Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany to record a 7-5, 4-6,
6-3 victory in two hours, 34 minutes.
Andalucia Open
Top-seeded Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain cruised to a 6-4, 6-0
victory over South Korean Soonwoo Kwon in a quarterfinal match
in Marbella, Spain.
Carreno Busta collected seven aces to win the match in one hour,
six minutes.
Carreno Busta's countrymen Albert Ramos-Vinolas and Jaume Munar
had a much more difficult time of it on Friday. Fourth-seeded
Ramos-Vinolas rallied to a 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-4 win over Norbert
Gombos of Slovakia, while Munar notched a 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4 win
over Ilya Ivashka of Belarus.
--Field Level Media
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