After two big victories in Dubai, Marin Čilić stopped in the quarterfinals ATP 500 tournaments in Dubai.
Better than a great Croat was Auger-aliassime With 6: 4, 3: 6 and 6: 2. The Čilić reiterated excellent tennis, but some shades went to the side of Canadian who went to the semifinals.
It was it Their fifth centuries And another consecutive Auger-Aliassimea victory. After the match, he remained the impression that Čilić was much closer to the victory than it shows the final result. Among the statistics protruding Marin’s utilization of opportunities for ‘Break’ (1/7) and the ratio between direct points (17) and unused mistakes (38).
This was especially expression in a very equal to the first set, which went to the Canadian tennis player, although Čilić was the one who had more opportunities in the initial phase. In the fourth and sixth gem, he had two occasions for ‘break’, but with three unfair mistakes missed the advantage.
And when he didn’t do that, Chilic, to ‘Break’, in the seventh game arrived auger-aliassime, again After a series of unloaded errors Croatian tennis player. Canadian retained the advantage acquired by the end of the first set (6-4) for whose conquering took for 46 minutes.
In the first game, Čilić saved one ‘Break’-ball on the second set, and then in the fourth gem managed the first time in the match to subtract the rival. It was a marina enough to conquer the second section of the match (6-3) so after 90 minutes of the game gone into a decisive set.
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Marin had the opportunity for ‘Break’ in the first gem, but another failure remained without realization. In the next gem, Auger-Aliasime threatened, reached 15-40, but the Čilić pulled out a series of four points from a dangerous situation. Unfortunately, two gems later, Canadian came to new ‘Break’-ball twice. The first Marin saved, but he made another unforced mistake to another. Auger-Aliassime confirmed the acquired advantage in the next gem and took 4-1.
Marin had the opportunity for the resulting return in the seventh gem. But faced with the ‘Break’-ball, Canadian was given to the as, and then’ Winner ‘and another asom came to Gem to victory. Already in the next gem of Auger-Aliassime he re-profited from Marina’s mistakes he gave him another ‘break’, and thus placement in the semifinals.
Marin is one of the big champions in our sport, It’s at a high level for years. When I just entered Tour won me quite convincingly. This is my second victory against him, I did, I spent a lot of time in the field and had to run a lot, but it paid off. I am very cheerful to be in the semifinals, The Canadian said after a duel in which Chilic surpassed in direct points (22-17), and especially in unfair mistakes (21-38).
In those decisive moments, Auger-Aliassime was more apparent and more precise, which brought him first semifinals in Dubai. For placement at 18. Career finals Canadian will play against the winner of the duel between Italians Luce Nardia (ATP – 79) and the French Quentina Halys (ATP – 77).
Despite today’s defeat, Čilić will make Significant jump according to ATP rankingsat which Monday should be found about 145. Places. To be placed in the semifinals, Marin would skip Born Ćorić and again became the best ranked Croatian tennis player and was around 120. Places.
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