Baghdatis Battles Into Antalya SFs

Former World No. 8 Marcos Baghdatis endured a fraught end to his Antalya Open quarter-final on Thursday. The Cypriot led 6/1 in the deciding set tie-break, and finally converted his sixth match point opportunity to beat qualifier Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-7(0), 6-3, 7-6(6) in two hours and 43 minutes.

Baghdatis is attempting to win his first ATP World Tour title since Sydney in January 2010. He opened the year by reaching the semi-finals in Auckland (l. Sousa).

Despite the loss, Ramanathan can be pleased with matching his best result at an ATP World Tour event. The World No. 222 also scored one of the biggest upsets of the year by ousting top seed Dominic Thiem in the second round.

Awaiting Baghdatis in the final four is Yuichi Sugita, who only needed 49 minutes to end the run of #NextGenATP German Daniel Altmaier 6-3, 6-0. Sugita dropped just nine points in the final seven games. The win puts the Japanese player into his first ATP World Tour semi-final.

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