Rubleev took advantage of Dimitrov's unexpected serve to win the break soon and take the lead 4-2 in set 1. Need to know, before the quarterfinals, Dimitrov has just lost 1 break from the beginning of the tournament until now.
However, the Dubai Championships 2022 championship did not achieve the highest performance and had difficulty at ending the first set. He was broken by Dimitrov in the 10th game to balance the score 5-5. However, RubleV quickly regained the feeling and won the break in the game soon after, creating a premise to win set 1 with a score of 7-5.
In set 2, RubleV starts even stronger when leading Dimitrov up to 5-1. This time, he did not give the opponent the chance of rising, winning points in both of his last serve games to end the set with a score of 6-2, setting the final victory 2-0.
In the remaining match of March 19, Taylor Fritz met many difficulties before Miomir Kecmanovic. Both players enter the game extremely firmly, making set 1 must go into the tie-break series. In the tie-break series, Fritz 3 times lost points in his serve, but he also won 4 points in the opponent's serve to close Set 1 with a 7-6 victory (7-5).
Fritz and Kecmanovic continued to play in set 2. But the situation suddenly changed when the American tennis player lost the only break of the set in the 8th game, thereby letting Kecmanovic bring the match to the starting line.
In the third set, Kecmanovic could not maintain his form and constantly lost points due to broken serve errors. Fritz soon won 2 breaks in the first serve of Kecmanovic and quickly won with a score of 6-1.
Overcoming Kecmanovic after 3 sets, Fritz booked tickets to the Masters 1000 semi -finals in Indian Wells, where he encountered RubleV. Both have met 4 times, each player has 2 victories.
