(Roberto Bautista Agut)
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Patna : World No 12 & 7th seed Roberto Bautista Agut, 32, Spain, stunned Top seed & World No 2 Daniil Medvedev, 25, Russia, in straight sets in quarter-finals on April 1, 2021, to reach the men’s singles semi-finals of Miami Open, Florida, USA. Agut beat Medvedev 6-4, 6-2 in 92 minutes in quarter-finals winning 3 break points and 5 games in a row during the match.
2021 Australian Open finalist Medvedev though fired 8 Aces during the match to none by the Spainiard. Agut, in all, won 69 points in the match to 53 nu the Russian. Agut will face 21st seed Jannik Sinner, 19, Italy, in semi-finals on April 2, 2021. Agut had reached Wimbledon semi-finals in 2019.
World No 31 Jannik Sinner beat 32nd seed Alexander Bublik, 23, Kazakhstan, 7-6, 6-4 in 1hr 40minutes in quarter-finals. Sinner won 3 break points during the match to 2 by World No 44 Bublik. Both the players won 3 games each in a row. The Italian, in all, won 88 points to 81 by Bublik. Bublik though fired 7 Aces in the match to 2 by Sinner.