No.

1 Jannik Sinner vs.

No.

5 Daniil Medvedev, and No.

10 Alex de Minaur vs.

No.

25 Jack Draper.

In the women’s bracket, by taking the last six games in a 6-2, 7-5 victory over No.

26 Paula Badosa and next faces No.

2 Aryna Sabalenka.

Fritz used his usual blend of big serving, winning 20 of 21 points when his first serves landed in during the fourth set, and big forehands, but he also was effective at the net—winning 16 of 24 points when he pushed forward—and returned well enough to accumulate 10 break points.

Even though Fritz only converted two of those break chances, it meant he constantly put pressure on Zverev, a German who made it to the finals of the U.

S.

Open and the Australian Open.

Fritz’s latest quarterfinal loss came in July at Wimbledon.

The other three? Two came against 24-time Slam champion Novak Djokovic; the other against 22-time Slam champion Rafael Nadal.

Fritz's coach, Michael Russell, said those past stumbles were not a topic of conversation before this quarterfinal.

“It’s cool I’m in the semis.

But I very much have the mindset of ‘the job’s not done,’” Fritz said.

“A question I got asked pretty much every time I lost in my quarterfinals was, ‘What’s it going to take to go further?’ And the answer I gave was always: Just keep putting myself in these situations, and I’ll become more comfortable in these situations and get better.

That’s definitely what happened now.

The quarterfinals didn’t feel like, I don’t know, this big thing to me like it has been, I guess, in the past.

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