The Chinese Zhinzhen Zhang won the duel against the American Christopher Eubanks and placed himself in the semifinals of the Halle tournament where he will face the world number one, the Italian Jannik Sinner who previously beat the German Jan Lennard Struff.
Zhang, 42 in the ATP ranking, won 6-4, 4-6 and 7-5 after one hour and 53 minutes. The American, who signed eighteen aces, had the victory in hand with 5-3 and serve in the last set. The Chinese tennis player, however, won four consecutive games and secured the victory.
These are the first semi-finals of the course for Zhang who has never faced Sinner. The Italian, as happened in the previous rounds, against the Dutch Tallon Greek track and the hungarian Fabian Marozsan, He needed three sets and his best tennis to win the duel against the German Jan Lennard Struff (6-2, 6-7(1) and 7-6(3) and reach the semifinals.
The tennis player from San Cándido, who debuts his status as number one in this event, has never achieved results of merit on this surface. Without title or final on grass, Sinner He managed to place himself among the four best after beating the German giant for the third time, all in 2024.
For the first time in his career Sinner aspires to the title in Halle. She had never come this far. And he brushed against defeat Struff that took the champion of the Australian Open who could not break the German’s serve, who signed eighteen direct serves, neither the second nor the third set.
On the other side of the table, the bidding is between the German Alexander Zverev, second favorite, and the Polish Hubert Hurkacz. Zverev needed a comeback to advance his duel against the Frenchman Arthur Fils (6-7(5), 6-3 and 6-4). The runner-up at Roland Garros weeks ago and twice finalist in Halle, longs for the first grass title of his career. The 27-year-old German is already in the semifinals and needed two hours and twenty-six minutes to end the push of Filswhich he won for the second time in as many matches after the Hamburg event, on land, in 2023.
The German will face Hurkacz in search of his third final in Halle. The Pole, ninth in the world, beat the American Marcos Giron 7-6(5) and 6-4, after one hour and 37 minutes. It is the second time that Hurkacz beats the North American, both on grass. The other was at Wimbledon in 2021.
With eight titles in his career, among them Halle in 2022none this year, faces its third semifinal of the season after signing a match with 42 winning shotseleven direct aces.
Zverev has always beaten Hurkacz. They have played three times and all ended up on the German’s side. None were on grass.
2024-06-21 20:56:55
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