Hubert Hurkacz fights back to reach Shanghai Masters semi-finals by ending Fabian Marozsan’s impressive run

Hubert Hurkacz withstood an early onslaught from an in-form Fabian Marozsan to book his place in the Shanghai Masters semi-finals with a 4-6 6-1 6-3 victory on Thursday.

Hurkacz, though, restored order with a dominant display in the second set, dropping just four points on serve, to take it 6-1.

Marozsan will reach a new career-high ranking on Monday, surpassing his previous best of 82 in the world, but was left to rue the chance to continue a fine week in Shanghai when he passed up a break point for a 4-2 lead in the deciding set.

Instead, Hurkacz held to level at 3-3 and won 15 of the last 16 points to romp to a tour-leading 21st deciding-set victory of the season.

“He came with some really great shots, and I just needed to stay positive and keep committing to the gameplan,” said Hurkacz.

“If I dropped anything short he was just taking advantage of it and coming with some really incredible shots. I knew I had to stay on point today.”

Victory also keeps alive the 26-year-old’s outside shot at making the end-of-season ATP Finals in Turin.

The winner of an all-American clash between Ben Shelton and Sebastian Korda awaits Hurkacz in the final four.

Fifth-seed Andrey Rublev takes on France’s Ugo Humbert in the other quarter-final.