the canadian Felix Auger-Aliassimesecond favorite, reached the semifinals of the ATP 250 tournament on the hard court in Doha, where he ousted the Spaniard Alexander Davidovichwhich he defeated 6-4 and 7-6 (5).
Despite the Spaniard’s improvement in the second set, Auger Aliassime prevented the duel from reaching the third set. the student of Tony Nadal he won after one hour and 50 minutes and sealed the victory, as had happened in the two’s four previous duels.
Auger Aliassime will play in the semifinal against the Russian Daniel Medvedev needing three sets to overcome the Australian Christopher O’Connell (6-2, 4-6 and 7-5).
On the other side of the table, the British andy murray He reached his first semifinals in 2023 after coming back from Frenchman Alexandre Muller (4-6, 6-1 and 6-2) and put himself among the four survivors of the Doha tournament.
The 35-year-old Scottish tennis player, now ranked 70th, took two hours and six minutes to straighten out his match against the Frenchman, who is 170th in the world rankings.
Andy Murray, who has not reached the final since last year in Stuttgart and Sydney, which he lost, and has not won the title since winning in Antwerp in 2019, will face Czech Jiri Lehecka, who starred in the surprise of the session by eliminating the early favorite, the Russian Andrey Rublev, champion in 2020, by 4-6, 6-4 and 6-3.
Source: La Verdad
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