Carreno Busta Unseats Defending Estoril Champion

Top seed Pablo Carreno Busta got revenge over defending Millennium Estoril Open champion Nicolas Almagro, avenging a loss to his fellow Spaniard in last year’s final with a comfortable 6-2, 6-4 quarter-final win on Friday. 

Carreno Busta evens his FedEx ATP Head2Head with Almagro at 1-1 with the victory. He picked up his 20^th ATP World Tour win of the season and moves into his fifth ATP World Tour semi-final of 2017. The Spaniard is seeking his second final of the year after finishing runner-up this February in Rio de Janeiro (l. Thiem).

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Awaiting him in the semi-finals is another Spaniard in fourth seed David Ferrer, who continued his resurgence this week with a dominant 6-4, 6-0 win over Ryan Harrison. Ferrer boosts his FedEx ATP Head2Head against Harrison to 4-0, but this is his first win over the American without dropping a set.

Ferrer is through to his first ATP World Tour semi-final of the season. He snapped a five-match losing streak with his opening-round win on Thursday over fellow wild card Frederico Ferreira Silva. The veteran leads his FedEx ATP Head2Head with Carreno Busta 1-0, but they haven’t played in three years.