Hubert Hurkacz continued his late cost within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Race To Turin with a comeback victory in opposition to Tallon Griekspoor on Friday within the Swiss Indoors Basel quarter-finals. The Pole earned a 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-4 win to remain firmly within the hunt for a return to the Nitto ATP Finals for the primary time since 2021.

Champion in Shanghai earlier this month, Hurkacz has already moved up one place within the Reside Race to tenth this week, and he’s now inside 245 factors of Holger Rune for eighth place — although the Dane has his personal quarter-final to play this night in Basel.

One main milestone can already be ticked off for Hurkacz this 12 months. After notching 41 tour-level singles wins in every of the previous two seasons, his quarter-final consequence earned him a personal-best 42 victories in 2023. 5 of these wins have are available in quarter-finals, the place the Pole owns a robust 5-1 mark, his solely loss coming to Novak Djokovic in Dubai.

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Hurkacz improved to 2-1 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head with Griekspoor, with all of their matches coming this season. Every of their two earlier matches went the gap, with Hurkacz profitable in 5 units at Roland Garros and Griekspoor triumphing in three in Halle.

“He is such an ideal opponent and nice man as nicely of the court docket,” Hurkacz stated of the Dutchman. “We had some loopy battles this 12 months. Final time he received, he beat me in Halle, so I used to be undoubtedly excited for this match, to get a shot at a rematch. We simply battled and my serve was undoubtedly serving to me at the moment.”

Hurkacz fought off the one two break factors he confronted within the match, with each coming at 1-2 within the ultimate set. He closed out the 2 hour, 19-minute victory in model with an emphatic love maintain.

In one other stellar serving efficiency, Hurkacz fired 23 aces amongst his 46 complete winners. With 52 aces on the week, he’s now as much as 950 this season, far and away essentially the most on the ATP Tour. Taylor Fritz, second on the leaderboard, has lower than 700 aces.

Subsequent up for the fourth-seeded Pole will probably be a semi-final assembly with Frenchman Ugo Humbert, who overcame Swiss wild card Dominic Stricker 6-4, 2-6, 6-2. Regardless of profitable simply two factors off Stricker’s first supply, Humbert was aggressive when he noticed second serves, changing 73 per cent of his second-serve return factors.

Now tied at his career-high No. 25 within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Rankings, the 25-year-old Humbert is into his third tour-level semi-final of the 12 months (Newport, Atlanta). Ought to he go one step additional, the lefty will compete in his first tour-level ultimate since triumphing in Halle in 2021.

When Humbert tried to defend his Halle title the next 12 months, it was Hurkacz who stopped him with a straight-sets second-round victory of their lone Lexus ATPHead2Head assembly.

Stricker, 21, was aiming for his maiden tour-level semi-final look. On Thursday, the lefty earned his second Prime 10 win of the season when he survived second seed Casper Ruud in a third-set tie-break. Sixth within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Race To Jeddah, Stricker is in prime place to return to the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals, which runs from 28 November – 2 December.