Diego Schwartzman outlasted Dominic Thiem in a five-hour, five-set French Open quarterfinal. Subsequent up: seemingly 12-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal, whom Schwartzman beat three weeks in the past.

Schwartzman, the undersized, 12th-seeded Argentine, dumped Thiem, the 2018 and 2019 French Open runner-up, 7-6 (1), 5-7, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (5), 6-2 on Tuesday.

Schwartzman recovered after being damaged whereas attempting to serve out the third and fourth units to succeed in his first Grand Slam semifinal.

He might play Nadal on Friday, if the Spaniard will get previous 19-year-old Italian Jannik Sinner in a later Tuesday quarterfinal. Novak Djokovic looms within the different half of the draw.

Schwartzman, generously listed at 5 ft, 7 inches, handed Nadal a uncommon, straight-sets defeat on clay on the Italian Open on Sept. 19.

Thiem, who received his first main title on the U.S. Open two weeks in the past, suffered his earliest Roland Garros exit since 2015. The third-seeded Austrian made the semis in 2016 and 2017 and misplaced to Nadal within the final two finals.

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Thiem repeated since arriving in Paris that exhaustion from his seven-match run in New York, and the whole lot else a serious title entails, would meet up with him. He received a three-and-a-half-hour, five-set fourth-round match on Sunday towards a French wild card.

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“I used to be over the restrict at present,” he mentioned Tuesday. “I nonetheless might play at fairly a excessive stage for greater than 5 hours. However, I imply, he was retaining it up till the tip. He was most likely a bit of bit more energizing than me within the fifth set.”

Earlier Tuesday, 131st-ranked Argentina Nadia Podoroska grew to become the primary qualifier to succeed in a ladies’s main semifinal since Alexandra Stevenson at 1999 Wimbledon. She upset No. three seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6-2, 6-4.

Danielle Collins arrange an all-American quarterfinal on Wednesday by topping 30th seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Collins, a 2019 Australian Open semifinalist who’s ranked 57th, will get No. Four seed Sofia Kenin for a spot within the remaining 4.

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