Alcaraz crashes, Sinner hobbles out of Madrid

Rublev upset home favourite Alcaraz 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the semi-finals. The seventh-seeded Rublev had lost his last five matches against top-three opposition and was 0-1 head-to-head against Alcaraz coming into the contest. He was also on a four-match losing streak heading into the Madrid Open. All that seemed like a distant memory in the quarter-finals against Alcaraz as Rublev maximised on his powerful brand of tennis to shock the Spanish world number three and reach the semi-finals at a seventh different Masters 1000 tournament...