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The warrior Andy Murray struck again at the ATP 250 in Doha. For his first semi-final on the circuit since Stuttgart 2022, the Briton once again offered the public a crazy scenario against Jiri Lehecka. The former world No. 1 was down 5-3 in the third set, but he first saved two match points on his service game before saving three more on the Czech’s serve. Forcing a tiebreak, Murray, over-motivated, finally won after two and a half hours of play with a score of 6-0, 3-6, 7-6(6). A new XXL feat from the Briton who accumulates them in 2023. Inexhaustible, the 35-year-old player will play his 71st final this Saturday, the first in more than eight months.
On the other side of the draw, Daniil Medvedev, who won his 16th title in Rotterdam last Sunday after a great week, could already be back in the final in Qatar. Winner of Liam Broady and Christopher O’Connell, the Russian is on a good momentum with seven consecutive wins. However, the sequence of matches is perhaps starting to weigh on him. He will have to recover well before his sixth match against Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No. 2 seed of the tournament and winner of the quarterfinal match against Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. So far, FAA has never beaten Daniil.
