World tennis number one Daniil Medvedev has reached the semi-finals of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati.
The top-seeded Russian beat US player Taylor Fritz 7-5, 6-3 in the quarter-finals. Medvedev, 26, will now face Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas, who beat John Isner of the USA 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 6-3, in the semi-finals.
The second semi-final will be contested by unseeded Croat Borna Coric and Britain’s Cameron Norrie. Coric, currently ranked 152 in the world, beat Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime (6-4, 6-4), his third top-20 opponent in a row, having previously defeated Spanish record Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal among others. Norrie eliminated Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (4-7), 6-4.
German doubles specialist Tim Pütz also reached the semi-finals with his New Zealand partner Michael Venus. They defeated the defending champions Marcel Granollers (Spain) and Horacio Zeballos (Argentina), the number two seed, 6-3, 6-3, while Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
In the women’s singles, sixth-seeded Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka is joined in the semi-finals by Czech two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, French qualifier Caroline Garcia and 2019 Cincinnati winner Madison Keys of the USA. Keys beat Kazakhstan’s Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina 6-2, 6-4.
