German fourth seed Alexander Zverev moved into the Miami Open semi-finals with a dominant win which ended the run of Hungary’s Fabian Marozsan.
Zverev, 26, gained 6-3 7-5 to succeed in the final 4 on the occasion for the primary time since 2018.
The Olympic champion used his serve to nice impact, whereas taking 4 of the seven break factors he created towards 57th-ranked Marozsan.
Zverev will play Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz or Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov subsequent.
Prime seed Alcaraz and Dimitrov, seeded eleventh, play their quarter-final match in Thursday’s evening session on the Florida occasion.
“I am glad to be again in these late levels of those tournaments, taking part in the very best gamers on the planet, I believe there are solely these left,” Zverev mentioned.
“I am wanting ahead to the problem.”
Italian second seed Jannik Sinner and Russian third seed Daniil Medvedev booked their locations within the final 4 on Wednesday, establishing a rematch of their current Australian Open remaining.
Zverev was crushed by Medvedev within the Melbourne final 4 as his watch for a maiden Grand Slam title goes on.
Regardless of not but having the ability to land one of many sport’s largest prizes, Zverev has continued to exhibit why he is among the ATP Tour’s main gamers and reached his seventeenth Masters 1,000 semi-final by sweeping apart Marozsan.
Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray are the one lively gamers to have performed in additional Masters semi-finals.
Towards Marozsan, Zverev’s high quality shone by way of in a dominant opening set the place his big serve was a dependable and efficient weapon.
The German broke within the third sport on the fourth try and had solely misplaced one level on serve till Marozsan – who had already crushed top-10 gamers Holger Rune and Alex de Minaur on his technique to the final eight – threatened to interrupt again within the sixth.
Nevertheless, Zverev saved that with an correct serve underneath strain and sealed the set when Marozsan produced a double fault on set level.
A good second set noticed Marozsan survive two break factors at 1-0 and 3-2 earlier than Zverev took a 3rd likelihood on match level with a superb backhand winner down the road.