• The fate of the former world number three between Thiem and Hanfman was decided in the final game of the deciding set when the 2020 US Open winner saved two of three break points. Thiem, 28, had a number of options to break the course of the fight, however, the Austrian used only one of a total of ten break points.
• In another quarterfinal match in Kitzbühel, the nominally third-ranked Spaniard Roberto Bautista-Agut (ATP 20th) managed to defeat (4:6, 7:5 and 7:5) the 20-year-old Czech talent Jirži Lehečka (ATP 68th) in a three-hour battle. .
Kitzbühel ATP 250 “Generali Open” quarterfinals
| The game | The date |
|---|---|
| Albert Ramos-Viñolas [5.] – Pedro Martinez [7.] | 6:4; 6:2 |
| Roberto Bautista-Aguts [3.] – Borna Corich | 4:6; 7:5; 7:5 |
| Filip Misolic [WC] – Dušan Lajović | 29.07. |
| Dominic Thiem – Janniks Hanfmans | 4:6; 6:3; 4:6 |
• The “Croatia Open” battles continue in the Adriatic coastal city of Umag in Croatia, with the brightest surprise for the 29-year-old Italian born in Argentina, Franco Agamemnon (ATP 136), who in a two and a half hour long battle beat (3:6, 6:1 and 7:5) the fourth seeded Argentine Sebastian Baes (ATP 32).
• In his first (!) ATP tour main tournament, Agamemnon reached the quarterfinals, in which he will have to compete against another compatriot Marco Cecchinato (ATP 151), who qualified for the Umag tournament, who defeated the Italian Lorenzo Muzzetti (ATP 31), who triumphed in the Hamburg ATP 500 point tournament the previous week, in the round of 16.
• Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz (ATP 5th), the number one seed in Croatia, who won last year’s tournament in Umag, safely played (6:2, 6:3) the qualifiers the lucky loser Slovak Norbert Gomboš (ATP 117).
Umag ATP 250 “Croatia Open” quarterfinals
| The game | The date |
|---|---|
| Carlos Alcaraz [1.] – Facundo Baņiss | 29.07. |
| Bernabe Zapata Mirajes – Julio Zepieri [Q] | 29.07. |
| Marko Cekinato [Q] – Franco Agamemnon [Q] | 29.07. |
| Roberto Karbajess Baena – Janniks Sinners [2.] | 29.07. |
• In the round of 16 of the Atlanta ATP 250 points tournament held on hard surface courts, sixth-seeded American Jenson Brooksby (ATP 43) defeated (6:3, 6:4) another American tennis player Mackenzie McDonald (ATP 51).
• American athlete Brandon Nakashima (ATP 56) won the quarterfinal match against world number 29 Francis Tiafoe, defeating (7:6 (8), 6:4) Australian John Millman (ATP 81) in an almost two-hour match.
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