In the first semifinal match of the ATP tournament in St. Petersburg, the American Taylor Fritz beat the representative of Germany Jan-Lennard Struff.
In the starting set, the rivals exchanged breaks and continued an equal fight when, with the score 5: 5, Struff again took the game on someone else's serve. However, in the second set, Fritz took a convincing revenge with a score of 6: 1, and then made an early break in the decisive set and brought the game to victory.
The total time of the match was 1 hour 59 minutes. Fritz scored 10 aces, Struff filed through 6 times.
In another semifinal match, Marin Cilic (Croatia) and Dutchman Botik van de Sandshulp, who knocked out the first racket of the tournament, Russian Andrei Rublev, from the previous stage, will play later.
ATP 250. St. Petersburg Open. Saint-Petersburg, Russia). Hard. Prize fund – $ 863,705
Taylor Fritz (USA, 5) – Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany) – 5: 7, 6: 1, 6: 3