Match Report
Korda cruises to Washington SFs, making most of latest life in D.C.
Shelton, Cobolli to fulfill in SFs
August 03, 2024
Caean Couto
Sebastian Korda hit 10 aces in his Washington quarter-final victory.
By ATP Workers
After saving two match factors on the Mubadala Citi DC Open towards Thanasi Kokkinakis, Sebastian Korda earned a much more simple victory towards one other Aussie on Friday. With a 6-4, 6-2 end result towards Jordan Thompson, the fourth-seeded American superior to his fourth semi-final of the season.
The victory noticed Korda transfer again to. No 20 within the PIF ATP Dwell Rankings, a mark that may match his career-high PIF ATP Rating from June. The 24-year-old can transfer as much as No. 18 if he matches his father, Petr Korda (1992), by successful the Washington title.
In his first Lexus ATP Head2Head assembly with Thompson, Korda hit 10 aces and saved the lone break level towards him, in response to Infosys ATP Stats. He awaits high seed Andrey Rublev or fifth seed Frances Tiafoe within the semi-finals.
The other semi-final will see second seed Ben Shelton tackle tenth seed Flavio Cobolli.
Shelton led the resurgent Denis Shapovalov 7-6(5), 6-6(6-3), and had triple match level when the Canadian was defaulted after making a remark to a fan. By coming by the all-lefty battle, the American improved to 4-0 in quarter-finals on dwelling soil and improved his season document to 26-16 — equalling his win tally from 2023, his first full 12 months on the ATP Tour.
Cobolli was a 7-5, 3-6, 7-6(2) winner towards #NextGenATP American Alex Michelsen. The 22-year-old Italian, who competed on the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals offered by PIF final November, saved 5 match factors towards Alejandro Davidovich Fokina within the third spherical to achieve his first ATP 500 quarter-final. He’s now by to his second tour-level semi-final total, after reaching that stage in Geneva in Could.
Cobolli is up six locations this week to No. 42 within the PIF ATP Dwell Rankings, setting himself up for a profession excessive. He’ll crack the High 40 with another win and can enter the High 30 along with his first title.
