The two quarter-finals will also have been watched with great interest by Richard Krajicek, as the tournament director also managed to tie all four players who now came into action for the tennis tournament of Rotterdam (February 5-13). And those intended crowd-pullers certainly did not disappoint.
Auger-Aliassime, a finalist in Ahoy two years ago, seemed long on its way to a huge stunt. The 21-year-old Canadian won the first two sets, but was left completely without a chance in the tiebreak of the third set.
Auger-Aliassim misses opportunities
In the even fourth company, Medvedev ran into problems on his own serve in the tenth game, but at 30-40 he brushed away the game point of Auger-Aliassime. And he did that with the three breakpoints at the beginning of the fifth set. The Canadian was broken in the third game, before it was his turn for a comeback.
At 5-3, Medvedev got a game point, but Auger-Aliassime fought back to 5-4 and 15-40. After that, things were put in order by Medvedev, who is working on a serious attempt to knock Djokovic from the first place in the world rankings.
Then first has to deal with Tsitspas, who reached the semifinals of the tournament for the third time. The Greek settled in three sets with Jannik Sinner: 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
