Atp Finals, Fritz in the semifinal against Djokovic. Auger-Aliassime beaten in three sets

Twenty-five years old, Californian from San Diego: it is Taylor Fritz the second promoted of the green group at Atp Finals in progress at the Pala Alpitour of TurinSaturday in the semifinals will challenge Nole Djokovic. In the last round of qualifying, the American tennis player defeated the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime at the end of an extremely balanced marathon lasting two hours and 43 minutes which ended with the score of 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (5-7) 6-2.

Fritz thus adds to Casper Ruud, who had already qualified as first place in the green group with one session to spare. And to think that the American tennis player had been rescued a few days before the start of the tournament of the masters, following the forfeit of the number one in the world, the Spanish Alcaraz, and now he is a candidate to become the surprise of the event.

The match between Fritz and Auger-Aliassime was for the moment the longest of the entire Finals edition: in the first set, the Californian got the better of the tie-break clinging to a serve that supported him even in the most delicate moments of the second game, like when down 0-1, he put a game back on its feet that seemed compromised. And the second set also ended in a tie-break, this time won by Auger-Aliassime 7-5. In the third set, the sixth game was decisive: Fritz built up the first three break points of the match and in the end conquered the point of 4-2 which opened the door for him to win 6-2.

Meanwhile, in the doubles tournament, the red group closed. The number two seeded duo comprised of Rajeev Ram And Joe Salisbury he folded in the last match Marcelo Arevalo And Jean-Julien Rojer with the score of 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 10-5 and reach the semifinals as group winners. Behind them, the Anglo-Finnish duo also qualified Glasspool-Heliovaara who bent the expert number 7 of the seeding, the Spaniard Granollers and Argentine Zeballoswith a clear 6-0, 6-4.