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Carlos Alcaraz continued his dominant 2023 season, defeating Italian Lorenzo Musetti 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday to succeed in the quarterfinals of the China Open in Beijing.
In the method, the top-seeded Alcaraz turned the primary participant to 60 tour-level wins this 12 months. He moved to 16-1 at ATP 500 occasions, which included titles at Barcelona and the Queen’s Club in London.
The Spaniard cruised to victory by breaking Musetti’s serve 4 occasions and successful factors on 70 p.c of his first serves.
In the quarterfinals, Alcaraz will tackle eighth-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway, who got here again to defeat Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7).
The third seed, Holger Dune of Denmark, was upset by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 7-5. Next up for Dimitrov is Italy’s Jannik Sinner, the sixth seed, who eradicated Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan 6-2, 6-0.
Astana Open
Fifth-seeded Sebastian Korda reached the semifinals in Kazakhstan by knocking off high seed Tallon Griekspoor 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
He struck 12 aces on his technique to his fifth tour semifinal of 2023. It was his first-ever assembly towards Griekspoor of the Netherlands.
Next up for Korda is Hamad Medjedovic of Serbia. The 20-year-old eradicated fourth-seeded Czech Jiri Lehecka 6-3, 6-4 to succeed in the semifinals.
The different semifinal will function Sebastian Ofner towards sixth-seeded Adrian Mannarino of France, who defeated Jurji Rodionov of Austria 6-1, 7-6 (6). Ofner beat fellow Austrian Dominic Thiem 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
–Field Level Media