The German Alexander Zverev won 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (5) over Jannik Sinner in a Monte-Carlo Masters classic to advance to the semi-finals of the first clay-court tournament of the season.
Sinner recovered from a break of serve to win the first set and Zverev returned the favor to the Italian in the second.
The 24-year-old German came from behind twice in the third set and had to extend the quarter-final duel to a tie break.
Alexander Zverev dominates Jannik Sinner 7-5 3-6 7-6 after a big fight of 3h07!
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In a match with 10 breaks of serve, half of the tiebreak points were against the serve.
Y Alexander he finally won after more than three hours, when Sinner hit a shot into the net.
Zverev will face the defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas after beating Argentina’s Diego Schwartzmann 6-2 6-7 6-4 after a two-hour, 43-minute fight.
Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who eliminated Novak Djokovic on Tuesday, did the same to American Taylor Fritz with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 win.
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Davidovich Fokina He broke the 10th-seeded man’s serve with the deciding set tied 3-3 to enter his first semi-final, where he will play Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov.
“I am enjoying every point,” said Davidovich Fokina. “I stayed focused and believed in myself.”
Dimitrov beat Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2).
The Bulgarian from qualifier lost two match points in the deciding set before taking it in the tiebreaker.
