Hubert Hurkacz has continued his sizzling late-season kind by defeating Ugo Humbert 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(5) Saturday to advance to the Swiss Indoors Basel ultimate.
The win lifted the World No. 11 Pole forward of Taylor Fritz into ninth place within the season-long Pepperstone ATP Race To Turin, leaving him only one place behind Holger Rune and the lower for the eight-man Nitto ATP Finals.
Rune will now take the court docket in Basel for his semi-final in opposition to Felix Auger-Aliassime as he appears to avenge his loss to the Canadian in final 12 months’s ultimate.
Hurkacz selected the arduous path to victory. He did not serve out the match at 5-3 within the third set after which did not convert two match factors on Humbert’s serve within the following sport. He wanted an additional three match factors within the tie-break to clinch victory.
Within the quarter-finals Hurkacz dropped 23 aces on Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor however in opposition to the left-handed Humbert he managed simply eight, together with one on match level. He now has 958 aces for the 12 months as he makes an attempt to achieve 1,000 in a season for the primary time.
Hurkacz, who received the Rolex Shanghai Masters title earlier this month, seeks his third title of the 12 months, second on the ATP 500 degree (Halle, 2022) and eighth total.
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