{"id":15863,"date":"2025-08-06T00:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15863"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:05:01","slug":"zverev-to-meet-khachanov-in-toronto-semi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15863","title":{"rendered":"Zverev to meet Khachanov in Toronto semi"},"content":{"rendered":"
Alexander Zverev reached his 21st Masters 1000 semi-final on Monday by ending the Canadian title defence of Alexei Popyrin 6-7 (8\/10), 6-4, 6-3 at the ATP Toronto Masters.<\/p>\n

The final game, with Zverev serving at 5-3, was interrupted by shouts from an unruly fan who was tossed out by security.<\/p>\n

The distraction ended a run of 14 consecutive points on serve, with the seed double-faulting once he was able to continue serving.<\/p>\n

He finished off the evening with a sharp volley winner at the net on his first match point.<\/p>\n

Zverev completed his 40th win of the year in just over two and a half hours.<\/p>\n

The world number three won the tournament in 2017 but had not been past the quarter-finals in Canada since.<\/p>\n

“After losing the first set, I had to tell myself we were both playing well,” the holder of seven Masters trophies said.<\/p>\n

“I had one or two mistakes at the end of the first, but it was a high-level match.<\/p>\n

“I felt that if I kept playing well, I would get my chances \u2014\u00a0and I did. I can’t complain about the second and third sets.”<\/p>\n

Zverev will bid for the oddly scheduled Thursday final against three-time semi-finalist Karen Khachanov, who dismissed young American Alex Michelsen 6-4, 7-6 (7\/3).<\/p>\n

“It was a very close, competitive match,” Khachanov said. “I had to come back from some tough situations.<\/p>\n

“How you handle that mentally is important. I was glad to close it out in the second set.<\/p>\n

“I had to try and not give him the opportunity to step in and attack; that’s what I did today.”<\/p>\n

Zverev has won five of the seven matches he has played against Khachanov.<\/p>\n

Popyrin and Zverev duelled throughout the evenly matched 71-minute opening set as it went into a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

Zverev was unable to convert on two winning chances, but Popyrin came good on his own second opportunity with a net cord winner that caught his opponent stranded at the baseline.<\/p>\n

The German began to turn the tables in the second set, taking a 4-1 lead only to see the Aussie level at 4-all.<\/p>\n

Zverev pulled away to level the match at a set apiece, breaking for 6-4 as Popyrin sent a volley wide.<\/p>\n

The top seed began the final set with a 3-0 lead on his way into the tournament final four at the pre-US Open event.<\/p>\n

Popyrin remains winless against Zverev after losing all four of their matches.<\/p>\n

Mboko’s run continues<\/p>\n

Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko stormed into the semi-finals of the women’s tournament in Montreal with a 6-4 6-2 win over Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro to continue her fairytale run.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old, ranked 85th in the world, found herself a break down early in the second set, but won six straight games to become the first Canadian to reach the semi-finals of the Canadian Open since 2019.<\/p>\n

“I’m so excited to be in the semi-final here. I want to thank everyone for your support once again. It has been unreal,” said Mboko, who beat No. 1 seed Coco Gauff on Saturday and is set to enter the top 50.<\/p>\n

Mboko next takes on Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, who was leading 6-1 2-1 when her opponent, Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine, was forced to retire from their quarter-final match due to a wrist injury.<\/p>\n

Rybakina will meet Mboko for the second time in as many weeks, with the ninth-seeded Kazakh winning 6-3 7-5 when the pair faced off in the Washington Open last month.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Zverev reached his 21st Masters 1000 semi-final on Monday by ending the Canadian title defence of Alexei Popyrin 6-7 (8\/10), 6-4, 6-3 at the ATP Toronto Masters. The final game, with Zverev serving at 5-3, was interrupted by shouts from an unruly fan who was tossed out by security. The distraction ended a run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}