Garcia-Lopez, Seppi reach Zagreb semis
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Zagreb, Croatia (SportsNetwork.com) - Top-five seeds Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and Andreas Seppi found safe passage into the semifinals at the Zagreb Indoors tennis event.
The third-seeded Garcia-Lopez of Spain tackled seventh-seeded Serb Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, while the fifth-seeded Italian Seppi came from behind to beat Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) at Dom Sportova.
"I am really happy now to play my first semifinal of the year in an ATP event," said Garcia-Lopez. "I am really happy also because I played a really good match against Viktor. He started the year playing really good, winning in Sydney. I have also started the year playing well so I knew it would be a difficult match."
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Also on Friday, former Australian Open runner-up and 2007 Zagreb titlist Marcos Baghdatis fought back to upset sixth-seeded 2012 Zagreb champ Mikhail Youzhny 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 and eighth-seeded Spaniard Marcel Granollers outlasted Dutchman Igor Sijsling 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.
The Cypriot Baghdatis will battle Garcia-Lopez in a semifinal on Saturday, while Seppi and Granollers will square off in the other.
The surging Seppi stunned Roger Federer in the third round at the Australian Open last month.
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The 2015 Zagreb champ will collect $90,000.