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Isner, a six-time winner of the event, saved four match points
in the next-to-last game before Brooksby closed out his victory.
Up next for Brooksby is a showdown with another U.S. player,
Frances Tiafoe. The fourth-seeded Tiafoe got past eighth-seeded
American Brandon Nakashima 6-4, 6-2.
Third-seeded Australian Alex de Minaur posted six aces while
rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 victory over France's Adrian
Mannarino to reach the semifinals.
The 23-year-old de Minaur, who won the event in 2019, will face
Ilya Ivashka of Belarus in the semis. Ivashka, 28, upset
fifth-seeded Tommy Paul 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.
Croatia Open Umag
Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz won 81.3 percent of his first-serve
points while cruising to a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Argentina's
Facundo Bagnis to reach the semifinals in Umag, Croatia.
The Spanish teen next faces Italian qualifier Giulio Zeppieri,
who knocked off Spain's Bernabe Zapata Miralles 7-5, 6-4.
Zeppieri had a 6-5 edge in aces.
Second-seeded Italian Jannik Sinner beat Spain's Roberto
Carballes Baena 6-4, 7-6 (5) to reach the semis. Sinner will
face Franco Agamenone, who defeated fellow Italian Marco
Cecchinato 6-2, 6-1.
Generali Open
Third-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut won 70.2 percent of his
first-serve points en route to a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory over
fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas to reach the final at
Kitzbuhel, Austria.
Bautista Agut led 5-2 in the second set before the fifth-seeded
Ramos-Vinolas made a charge and won the next four games. But
Bautista Agut rolled through the next game and won the
tiebreaker to advance to play either Austrian wild card Filip
Misolic or Germany's Yannick Hamfmann.
Misolic led Hanfmann 6-2, 2-6, 6-6 (1-0) when play was stopped
due to heavy rain, and the match will resume Saturday. Misolic
beat Serbia's Dusan Lajovic 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 earlier Friday
after their Thursday quarterfinal match was postponed a day due
to rain.
--Field Level Media
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