Alexander Zverev beats Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets, Frances Tiafoe defeats Jannik Sinner

ByThe Editorial Team

Updated 30/10/2021 at 21:42 GMT

World number four Alexander Zverev needed just 68 minutes to beat Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz and book his place in the Erste Bank Open final. Zverev will play American youngster Frances Tiafoe, who needed three sets to beat Italian rival Jannik Sinner early on Saturday evening in the Austrian tournament.

World number four Alexander Zverev beat Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, and Frances Tiafoe will meet him in the final after defeating Jannik Sinner.

World number four Zverev needed just over an hour to beat the young Spaniard, who had got past Brits Daniel Evans and Andy Murray earlier in the week.

The match went with serve until the seventh game of the first set, when Zverev set up two break points and converted the second of them.

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The German then held comfortably to take a 5-3 lead and then broke Alcaraz’s serve for the second successive game to leave himself one set from the final.

Alcaraz regained his composure at the beginning of the second set as he won his first two service games to keep himself in the match.

However, Zverev took his first break point opportunity of the second set, in the sixth game, to take a decisive 4-2 lead.

The German then held to extend that advantage to 5-2. Alcaraz did likewise to make the 24-year-old serve for the match and created a break point opportunity to keep himself in the match.

He could not take it though, and at the second attempt Zverev converted match point to book his place in Sunday’s final against either Francis Tiafoe.

In the day's second game, Tiafoe looked like he was on his way out against seventh seed Sinner, with the Italian taking the first set 6-3.

However the American claimed the second set 7-5 before cruising to a 6-2 win in the final set.

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