Both players hit 20 winners, but Medvedev had nine unforced
errors while Sinner committed 19. Medvedev never faced break
point and won 30 of his 37 first-service points (81.1 percent).
Borna Coric of Croatia upset a second straight seeded foe to
make the semifinals. After beating No. 2 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas
of Greece in the previous round, Coric outlasted Polish fifth
seed Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5).
Canada's Denis Shapovalov beat Great Britain's Daniel Evans 6-3,
6-3 and will meet Coric in the semis. Medvedev will face
Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, who topped Marcos Giron 6-3, 4-6,
6-4.
Swiss Indoors Basel
World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz beat fifth seed and Spanish
countryman Pablo Carreno Busta 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the
semifinals in Switzerland.
Alcaraz saved four of five break points while Carreno Busta
stayed in the match by saving nine of 12. Next, Alcaraz will
face Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, who dispatched Kazakhstan's
Alexander Bublik 6-2, 6-3.
The other semifinal will pit sixth seed Roberto Bautista Agut of
Spain and Denmark's Holger Rune. Bautista Agut got past
Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka 7-5, 7-6 (5), and Rune defeated
France's Arthur Rinderknech 7-6 (0), 6-2.
--Field Level Media
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