Altmaier eliminates Medvedev and reaches the Halle semifinals with Zverev

The German Daniel Altmaier He achieved one of the most important victories of his career by beating the Russian Daniil Medvedevseventh in the world, 6-4, 6-7(6) and 6-4 and reach the semifinals of the Halle tournament.

The local hero, driven by the public, took two hours and 43 minutes to carry out the match and defeat the Muscovite, a finalist in 2022 and 2025.

Halle is the most important semifinal in the career of Altmaier, 27, a 500 category tournament. The third he has achieved on the ATP circuit since he became a professional, the first since 2021. He will face the winner of the clash between the Canadian Felix Auger Aliassimesecond seed, and the American Frances Tiafoe.

On the other side of the picture, the German Alexander Zverevfirst favorite, achieved against the Belgian Raphael Collignon his tenth victory in a row to reach, for the sixth time in his career, the semifinals of the Halle tournament where the American awaits him Taylor Fritzwho took revenge on his countryman Ben Shelton and surpassed the quarterfinals.

Both duels exhausted tiebreakers. Zverev beat Collignon 7-6(10) and 7-6(2) and extended his good streak after winning Roland Garros weeks ago. The Hamburg player, third in the world, has never won any tournament on grass. It took him one hour and 59 minutes to win his match.

Unsuccessful finalist twice in Halle, surpassed in 2017 by Roger Federer and in 2016 against his compatriot Florian Mayer, he will play against the American Taylor Fritz with whom he has lost the last six duels they have played.

Fritz previously took revenge on his compatriot Ben Shelton with whom he lost last Sunday in the final of the Stuttgart tournament as well as the one in Dallas weeks ago. But the world number 9 stopped this bad streak by winning in Halle where he saved a match point and won 6-7(5), 7-6(8) and 7-6(3).

In a match dominated by serve, Fritz hit 24 aces and saved all four break points he faced, while Shelton hit 15 aces and had no break points in the two-hour, 49-minute match.

Fritz saved a match point with his serve in the second set tiebreaker. This is Fritz’s first victory against a Top 10 player since he defeated the Italian Lorenzo Musetti at the ATP Finals last November. Looking for his first title of the year.