Saturday's second final will see defending champion and fifth seed Cristian Garin take on John Isner after both men notched three-set victories on Friday. While Kyrgios will be playing in his first ATP Tour semi-final since August 2019, when he won the Washington title, Opelka will contest his fourth semi-final of the season as he seeks a second title of 2022. 'I think Houston's pretty good conditions for both of us.'

'I think we're both pretty comfortable in the clay, as it seems in this tournament,' the Aussie said. Though neither man is known as a clay-court specialist, both have been in good form in Houston and both have reached multiple ATP Tour semi-finals on the surface, with Kyrgios through to that stage for the third time on clay. We'll see, it might come down to a couple of points.' 'I'm just excited to go out there again in front of the Houston crowd.

Really finding his game style and executing. Kyrgios, previewing Saturday's match, added: 'I'm excited to be in the semi-final against Reilly, someone who's been playing extremely good for the last couple of years. 'I've got to serve better than the way I've been to beat that guy, for sure.' 'Nick, you never know what you're going to get,' the American said, looking ahead to the match against his friend. (Opelka went on to reach the Toronto final, losing to Daniil Medvedev.) Saturday's semi-final meeting will be their second ATP Head2Head matchup, with Opelka winning a three-setter in the opening round of the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto event in August. Kyrgios advanced before the start of play as Michael Mmoh's withdrew with a right adductor strain. Working for the weekend 💪 gets past Brouwer 6-3 7-5 and will face Kyrgios in the Houston semi-finals. But he had to battle back from 1-3 down in the second to match his semi-final effort on the clay of the ATP Masters 1000 in Rome last May. 361 opponent, Opelka was able to power through the opening set behind an early break. You get to take your time and that's huge.'ĭespite facing windy conditions and entering the match without a scouting report on his World No. 'The bye weeks are nice, they really are, to come in a little later, have more time to prepare on the court,' he said. With the benefit of a first-round bye, he's started his clay-court swing strongly on home soil. Opelka entered the ATP 250 event with an 0-4 main-draw record in Houston, with his last appearance in 2019. 18 after he dropped the opening stanza of his campaign against countryman Mitchell Krueger. The American was a 6-3, 7-5 winner over Dutch qualifier Gijs Brouwer, making it four sets in a row for the World No. Men's Clay Court Championship, building on his first Houston victory to book a marquee matchup against Nick Kyrgios, who advanced via walkover. Reilly Opelka advanced to his second ATP Tour semi-final on clay on Friday at the Fayez Sarofim & Co.

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