At Madrid Open this year, Jan-Lennard Struff must attend from the qualifying round. At the last qualifying round, the German player lost to Aslan Karatsev. However, he then still entered the main round due to another player withdrawing.
Although not appreciated, Jan-Lennard Struff is taking the fans from surprise to surprise. This morning 5/5, the German star has just defeated the No. 4 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals.
This match, the two players have a very intense set. Accordingly, in all 12 games, no one won the break. They have to enter the series of tie-breaks to determine the victory, with a close 7-5 victory in favor of Struff.
Sang set 2, Tsitsipas has 1 break point right in game 1 but cannot take advantage. However, the No. 4 seed still plays full of effort to win successfully in game 11 hinges. He then won the white game 12 to end set 2 with a 7-5 victory.
Coming to Set 3 decisions, Tsitsipas continued to miss the opportunity to win early despite having 2 break Points in Game 3. Soon after that, he had to pay the price when Struff broke the game 4. The German player took advantage of the set to the end of the set to win 6-3.
In the end, Struff won 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-3 to have the first semi-finals of a Masters 1000. Notably, the German star will compete for the final tickets with Aslan Karatsev, who defeated him in the previous 2nd qualifying. The remaining semi -final is the competition between the No. 1 seed Carlos Alcaraz and Borna Coric.
