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Gaston will face Argentina's Facundo Diaz
Acosta, who knocked off fourth seed Pedro Martinez of Spain 6-7
(2), 6-3, 6-4 in a three-hour, 32-minute match.
Italy's Matteo Berrettini won his eighth consecutive match in
beating American wild card Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 7-6 (5),
6-3 in the quarterfinals. Berrettini saved all three break
points and recorded seven aces on Thursday. He improved to 9-0
in tiebreaks over the past two weeks.
He advances to the semifinals against Germany's Yannick Hanfmann,
who ousted Brazil's Thiago Seyboth Wild 7-6 (2), 6-4.
Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
Top seed Andrey Rublev of Russia moved closer to his third title
of the year with a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 quarterfinal victory over
Hungary's Fabian Marozsan in Umag, Croatia.
Rublev won earlier in 2024 in Hong Kong and Madrid and has 16
tour-level crowns. He converted six of 15 break points and fired
10 aces to zero double faults.
He moves to the semifinals against fourth-seeded Francisco
Cerundolo of Argentina, a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (2) winner over Italy's
Lorenzo Sonego.
Czech Jakub Mensik eliminated Taiwan lucky loser Chun-Hsin Tseng
6-0, 6-4 and will face second-seeded Lorenzo Musetti of Italy, a
5-7, 6-3, 6-0 winner over Dusan Lajovic of Serbia.
Atlanta Open
Juncheng Shang, a 19-year-old qualifier from China, upset
top-seeded Ben Shelton 7-6 (6), 6-4 in the second round at
Atlanta.
The result was a repeat of their matchup last year at the same
event, when Shang also got the best of Shelton, an Atlanta
native. Shang advanced to the third quarterfinal appearance of
his career, all of them coming this year.
Shang faced just one break point in the match despite managing
just two aces to Shelton's 13.
Third-seeded Frances Tiafoe won 84 percent of his first serve
points (46 of 55) while emerging with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 victory
over Russia's Aslan Karatsev.
Fourth-seeded Jordan Thompson of Australia won in straight sets
over French lucky loser Harold Mayot 6-2, 7-5. Japan's Yoshihito
Nishioka downed American Mackenze McDonald 6-3, 6-4 and next
will face Tiafoe in the quarterfinals.
Fifth-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain and
eighth-seeded Max Purcell of Australia also advanced.
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