Antalya: Seppi moves into the semi-finals

For the Kalterer native, the match in Turkey started as desired. In the first game he took the service from Albot and shortly afterwards increased it to 2-0. A little later, the “Azzurro” managed the next break to make it 4-1, but then he immediately received the rebreak in return. With the score at 5:4, Seppi finally used his second set point after 45 minutes to win the set 6:4.

Seppi and Albot played their serve games effortlessly in the second period to make it 3:4. Then Albot suddenly had a break ball. But Seppi fended him off and shortly afterwards made it 4:4. A little later this set went into a tiebreak. Here the South Tyrolean managed the early mini break to make it 1-0. He then won clearly 7:3.

On Friday Seppi will fight for a place in the final. In the semifinals he will face either the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino or the tournament's number 3, Fernando Verdasco from Spain. This match will only be played in the evening. The 33-year-old Überetscher has played against Mannarino five times (3 wins, 2 defeats), but in the nine duels with Verdasco so far, Seppi has lost eight times.

Seppi's 25 semi-final duels on the ATP tour (8 wins, 17 losses):

Palermo 2005: -Igor Andreev (Russia/ATP 52) 2:6, 4:6 Sydney 2006: -Igor Andreev (Russia/26) 2:6, 6:2, 2:6 Nottingham 2006: -Jonas Björkman (Sweden/77) 3:6, 1:6 Gstaad 2007: +Igor Andreev (Russia/59) 6:4, 3:6, 7:6 Vienna 2007: -Novak Djokovic (Serbia/3) 4:6, 3:6 Hamburg 2008: -Roger Federer (Switzerland/1) 3:6, 1:6 Belgrade 2009: -Novak Djokovic (Serbia/3) 6:4, 1:6, 2:6 Umag 2009: -Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain/36) 1:6, 7:6, 5:7 Hamburg 2010: -Jürgen Melzer (Austria/15) 4:6, 2:6 Umag 2010: -Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain/22) 4:6, 2:6 Eastbourne 2011: +Igor Kunitsyn (Russia/71) 6:4, 2:6, 6:4 Belgrade 2012: +David Nalbandian (Argentina/49) 2:6, 6:2, 7:5 Eastbourne 2012: +Ryan Harrison (USA/53) 7:5, 6:1 Metz 2012: +Gael Monfils (France/44) 3:6, 6:1, 6:4 Moscow 2012: +Malek Jaziri (Tunisia/112) 6:3, 6:1 Sydney 2013: -Bernard Tomic (Australia/64) 6:7, 4:6 Oeiras 2013: -David Ferrer (Spain/4) 1:6, 4:6 Eastbourne 2013: -Gilles Simon (France/17) 4:6, 3:6 Umag 2013: -Tommy Robredo (Spain/28) 4:6, 6:2, 4:6 Moscow 2013: -Mikhail Kukushkin (Kazakhstan/102) 1:6, 6:1, 4:6 Doha 2015: -Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic/7) 2:6, 3:6 Zagreb 2015: +Marcel Grannolers (Spain/55) 7:6, 6:1 Hall 2015: +Kei Nishikori (Japan/5) 4:1 task Hamburg 2015: -Rafael Nadal (Spain/10) 1:6, 2:6 Nottingham 2016: - Steve Johnson (USA/38) 4:6, 4:6

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Antalya: Seppi moves into the semi-finals

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