The fans at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna can look forward to two great semi-finals on Saturday. After Matteo Berrettini and Dominic Thiem had already solved their ticket for the semi-final round in the afternoon, Diego Schwartzman and Gael Monfils moved in the evening.

Schwartzman sat in his quarter-final somewhat surprisingly against the second-placed Karen Khachanov. The Argentinian made a double break in the first set and won the first round 7: 6 (6). The second section was a clear affair, Schwartzman celebrated some sensational tennis and finally won a lot of money with 7: 6 (6) and 6: 2.

During and after the meeting, Schwartzman, who has a friendship with Dominic Thiem, was celebrated by the Austrian audience with "Diego, Diego" chants. "I wonder if that would be the case in a possible final against Dominic," said the 27-year-old laughingly.

Thiem opens on Saturday

Schwartzman meets Gael Monfils in the semi-final. The Frenchman won after a weak start against the Slovenian qualifiers Aljaz Bedene safely with 7: 5 and 6: 1 by. "Today, the markup was certainly the key to success," said the Frenchman, who won 81 percent of the points after the first service.

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The semifinal day will be opened at 14:00 by Dominic Thiem and Matteo Berrettini (in the Tennisnet liveticker). Then the match between Schwartzman and Monfils follows, before a meeting between Lukas Kubot / Marcelo Melo and Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut comes.

The schedule on Saturday

The single tableau in Vienna