Diego Sebastian Schwartzman gets the better of Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 2-6 7-63 6-1 in the quarter in Cologne on Friday. Schwartzman will face Felix Auger Aliassime in the semifinal.

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Davidovich Fokina was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Schwartzman in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Alejandro to win the set because Schwartzman found the way to break back in the 4th (1-3) game. Alejandro kept his cool to break Diego in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

Davidovich Fokina was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (2-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40). On the other side, the Argentine was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 3rd game (0-3 30-40).

They played 42 points. Alejandro was the one to win the set after conquering 10 points more than Diego (26-16). Alejandro lost 7 points on serve (14-7). On the losing side, Schwartzman conceded 12 points on serve (9-12).

Davidovich Fokina had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Schwartzman in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, the Argentine was not done to come back to break Davidovich Fokina 4 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 8th (3-5), in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th (6-6) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 3.

Diego failed to serve out the set when leading 5-5 to be broken at 30.

Anyhow also the Spaniard won 4 consecutive games from 1-2 to 5-2

Tiebreak

The Argentine won 5 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 3rd (2-1), 6th (4-2), 7th (5-2) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, Davidovich Fokina won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 5th (2-3) and 9th (3-6) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 6-3, 7-3

The Argentine converted 40% of his break points (4/10). He had 10 break points opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 30-40), the 8th (2-5 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 10th (4-5 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (5-6 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). Also, on the other side, the Spaniard converted 80% of his break points (4/5). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 5th (2-2 30-40), the 7th (4-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 30-40).

They contested 87 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Diego won just 3 more points than Alejandro (45-42

). Schwartzman lost 22 points on serve (18-22). on the other side of the net, Davidovich Fokina conceded 27 points on serve (20-27).

Schwartzman commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Davidovich Fokina in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Schwartzman reinforced his lead after breaking Davidovich Fokina in the 3rd (3-0) and in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.

An important stage of this set was when the Argentine won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd

set so as to convert the game count from 0-0 to 4-0.

They contested 38 points. The Argentine was the winner of the set after clinching 16 more points than Alejandro (27-11). Diego was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (12-3). on the other side of the net, the Spaniard conceded 15 points on serve (8-15).

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At the end of the match, Diego scored 89 points vs. Alejandro’s 80.

Diego was pretty focused in converting 53% of the break points that he procured (8/15). On the other side, Alejandro was pretty effective at converting 78% of the break points that he procured points (7/9). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this match, the head to head between Schwartzman and Davidovich Fokina is 2-0 for Diego.

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Draw and next match H2H: Diego Sebastian Schwartzman vs. Felix Auger Aliassime – stats

Schwartzman will come up against Auger Aliassime in the semifinal.

There is no head to head record between Diego Sebastian Schwartzman and Felix Auger Aliassime since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

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