Holger Rune is in the semi-finals of the Masters in Paris, after defeating Aleks de Minaur (25:6, 4:4, 6:7) after two hours and 5 minutes.
The Dane led in the mutual duels with the Australian - 3:2, but also entered the history of the tournament in Bercy, as the youngest after the Russian Marat Safin to win the semi-finals of that Masters twice (in 1999 and 2000, Safin was a semi-finalist).
Two years ago, Rune celebrated in Paris, and today he reached the semi-finals of the Masters for the fifth time, the second time this season.
De Minaur is still in contention for the final tournament in Turin, as he is in eighth place, but with only 15 points more than the ninth in the ATP race, Russia's Andrei Rublev. It is to be expected that by Turin both tennis players will be looking for a wild card for some of the tournaments that will start soon
Rune is the 13th player and for the final he will play against the third on the ATP list, the German Alexander Zverev, who won the 11th player, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (7:5, 6:4).
For the 20th time, the German reached the semi-finals of the masters series tournament. He became the eighth player in history to reach that mark.
The record holder is Novak Djokovic with 78; Rafael Nadal (76); Roger Federer (66); Andy Murray (33); Andre Agassi (32); Piet Sampras (31); Andy Roddick (20).
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