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Hurkacz had to pull out a tiebreaker win before
besting Spanish qualifier Pablo Llamas Ruiz 7-6 (4), 6-4.
Hurkacz went 8-for-8 saving break points, including five in the
first set, when the players held serve all the way to 6-6.
In the semifinals, Ruud will face Pedro Martinez of Spain -- a
6-4, 6-4 winner over lucky loser Richard Gasquet of France --
while Hurkacz will meet Chilean Cristian Garin, who ended the
home-soil run of Portugal's Nuno Borges with a 6-2, 7-6 (3)
result.
Grand Prix Hassan II
Playing on a protected ranking, Matteo Berrettini defeated
fellow Italian and fourth seed Lorenzo Sonego 6-3, 7-6 (5) to
advance to the semifinals in Marrakech, Morocco.
The 2021 Wimbledon finalist is playing just his second event of
the season, but he managed to win an overwhelming 83.6 percent
of his first-serve points (46 of 55) and hit five aces to beat
Sonego.
That result left No. 7 seed Mariano Navone of Argentina as the
only seeded player left standing. Navone beat Australian
Aleksandar Vukic of Australia 6-2, 6-4. Berrettini will face
Navone in one semifinal, while Russia's Pavel Kotov will meet
Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena in the other.
Kotov cruised past Italian qualifier Fabio Fognini 6-1, 6-2,
while Carballes Baena beat American qualifier Nicolas Moreno De
Alboran 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
--Field Level Media
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