In the early morning of April 23, Beijing time, the men's singles match of the 2022 ATP500 Barcelona Open continued, after the quarter-final matchups of the station were released, as follows: Tsitsipas vs Alcaraz, Nori vs Deminault, Schwartzman vs Aliasim, Carreno Busta vs Rude.
Tsitsipas and Alcaraz, the two sides have met in the past two times, Alcaraz has maintained a total victory, this time Tsitsipas can get revenge? At the beginning of the game, with the break in the end of the set, Alcaraz, who won three consecutive sets, took the lead 6-4, and in the last moments of the first set, Tsitsipas almost hit Alcaraz in front of the net with the ball in a run back. In the second set, Alcaraz's 4-1 lead led with a slightly more impatient error, only to be reversed by Tsitsipas to win back a set 7-5.
The battle between the two sides came to the decisive set, Tsitsipas went to the bathroom to time out between games, resulting in a 2-point penalty by the referee, Tsitsipas and the referee after a dispute, continued to start the game, and finally Alcaraz easily won the decider 6-2, thus eliminating Tsitsipas 2-1 to advance to the final four.
In addition, beating No. 4 seed Nori 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 ended his five-game losing streak against the top ten players and the first time in his career to beat the top 10 players in clay tournaments. Busta saved three match points in the second set and grabbed seven sets to cash in on the sixth set and then completed the reversal to beat No. 2 seed Rudd 4-6, 7-6 (8)/6-3.
No. 6 seed Schwartzman successfully reversed after losing a set, beating No. 3 seed Aliassim 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, and although the Canadian brother blasted 8 Aces in the whole game, he forced 10 break points but only cashed in on 2 of them. Schwartzman has won three of those four times since 2020 against Canadian players, while also ending his four-game losing streak against the top ten players on the Clay Tour.