Robin Haase stuns second seed Thiem to reach Halle last eight

ByReuters

Updated 21/06/2017 at 21:50 GMT

Dutchman Robin Haase shocked second seed Dominic Thiem 6-3 7-6(7) on Wednesday to reach the Halle Open quarter-finals and leave the Wimbledon warmup event without one of its biggest attractions.

Dominic Thiem at the Halle Open

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The Austrian world number eight struggled with Haase's consistency throughout and missed two set points in the second set before double-faulting on his opponent's first match point.

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Thiem suffered a solitary break as the 30-year-old Dutchman, ranked 42nd in the world, went 5-3 up before serving out the set.

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The 23-year-old Thiem was again under pressure as the unforced errors started to pile up and had to dig deep to save further break points at 2-2 and 4-4 in the second.

Haase finally got the break he wanted two games later, firing an audacious lob and slapping a desperate and risky crosscourt forehand that Thiem could not return to go 6-5 up.

But instead of serving out the match Haase was broken straight back and had to save two set points before Thiem handed him the game with his fourth double-fault.

Haase will next face Frenchman Richard Gasquet, who beat Australian Bernard Tomic 6-3 6-3.

Germany's Alexander Zverev, last year's finalist in Halle, found little resistance against Philipp Kohlschreiber to win 6-3 6-3 and set up a quarter-final against Roberto Bautista-Agut.