The resurgent Chilean led by a break in the fourth set, but Alcaraz denied the upset bid after nearly four hours to win 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-5 and move into the fourth round.

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Rune won a titanic fifth-set tiebreaker while Ruud avenged a Geneva defeat to Nicolas Jarry to face off for the second time since their drama-filled Paris quarterfinal in 2022.

Meanwhile, Katerina Siniakova spends her 100th career week at No. 1 on the WTA doubles rankings.

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Jarry is now set to rise above the career-high No. 38-ranking he reached in 2019, before a failed doping test interrupted his career.

The Bulgarian trailed Taylor Fritz by a set and 4-2 before rallying to win the semifinal, as he seeks his second career clay-court title and ninth overall.

And looking ahead, Iga Swiatek is defending 2,000 points in Indian Wells and Miami—can anybody catch her at No. 1?

Home-crowd favorite Nicolas Jarry and Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry have advanced to the final of the Chile Open on Saturday

Three of the four semifinalists of the ATP 250 event in Santiago are South American players.