Millman advanced to his first ATP World Tour semifinal.
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ATP Winston-Salem tournament: Third round: Richard Gasquet bt Stephane Robert 6-1, 6-3; John Millman bt Bjorn Fratangelo 5-7, 6-0, 6-3; Lu Yen-Hsun bt Diego Schwartzman 6-4, 6-0; Roberto Bautista Agut bt Marcos Baghdatis 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Fernando Verdasco bt Steve Johnson 6-4, 7-6 (7); Viktor Troicki bt Sam Querrey 6-2, 7-6 (5); Andrey Kuznetsov bt Jiri Vesely 5-5 retd.
“Gasquet is a top player”. Playing and beating him is very satisfying.
He was knocked out of the Olympic Games in the second round and he was beaten in the Western & Southern Open by Dominic Thiem early on.
He will face 16th-seeded Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain, a 6-4, 6-3 victor over 12th-seeded Alexander Kuznetsov of Russian Federation.
Bautista Agut needed three sets to get past the Serbian in two hours, 10 minutes.
Kvitova, who won this event the last two years as well as in 2012, stormed past her Russian opponent as she looks to join Venus Williams and Caroline Wozniacki as a four-time victor in the tournament.
Belgium’s Kirsten Flipkens beat France’s Caroline Garcia 7-6 (3), 7-5 to set up a match against top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. Vinci will face Sweden’s Johanna Larsson, a 7-6 (1), 6-4 victor over American Shelby Rogers 7-6 (1), 6-4.
Larsson, who is ranked 62nd in the world, now has a semi-final matchup with Elina Svitolina of Ukraine.
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The most impressive performance of the day was provided by sixth-seeded Petra Kvitova, who took out Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-2 for a berth in the quarterfinals.
