STUTTGART, Germany — French veteran Richard Gasquet prevailed on his fifth match level to upset top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6 (8), 2-6, 7-5 on the Stuttgart Open for his 600th ATP tour win on Thursday.

Gasquet, who will flip 37 on Sunday, made a sluggish begin as Tsitsipas received the primary three video games however he leveled for 3-3, then received the primary set within the tiebreaker. Tsitsipas, who was taking part in his first grass-court match of 2023, fended off 4 match factors - the primary along with his nineteenth ace - earlier than Gasquet lastly delivered on the fifth.

The Fifty fifth-ranked Gasquet, who defeated American qualifier Christopher Eubanks within the first spherical, subsequent faces dwelling favourite Jan-Lennard Struff in Friday’s quarterfinals.

Struff defeated fifth-seeded American Tommy Paul 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5). The German participant hit 21 aces however might solely break as soon as, with Paul saving six of the seven break factors he confronted.

Earlier, Taylor Fritz held serve all through as he began his grass-court season by beating Aslan Karatsev 7-6 (4), 6-3 to achieve the quarterfinals.

Fritz needed to save set level at 5-4 down within the first set, which later went to a tiebreaker the place Fritz raced right into a 5-2 lead earlier than sealing the set. Fritz broke Karatsev for the primary time at 3-2 within the second set to place himself on track for the win.

Fritz, the highest-ranked American on the boys’s tour at No. 8, mentioned he was “really happy” with the win and happy along with his serving and returning on grass. Last 12 months was Fritz’s most profitable season on the floor, the place he received Eastbourne for the second time and reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon.

Fritz is seeded second and had a bye within the first spherical in Stuttgart. He goes on to fulfill Marton Fucsovics within the quarterfinals after the Hungarian received in opposition to Wu Yibing 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

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