Shanghai Oct 12 (IANS) Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina produced one of his best performances of the tennis season here on Thursday overcoming a one-set deficit to beat third-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany 3-6 7-6(5) 6-4 to reach the Shanghai Rolex Masters quarter-finals.
The 20-year-old Zverev who has collected 5 ATP World Tour titles this season lost his temper when broken by the Argentine at 2-2 in the decider and flung his racquet down to the ground reports Xinhua news agency.
Zverev came to the match strong and raced to a 3-0 lead in the first set within 10 minutes. But 16th seeded Del Potro found his form in the second set scored 5 love games and levelled the set-score with a 7-5 victory in the tie-break.
"I think I didn t play well the first game of the match with my serve but when I saw the stats on the TV and I was winning more points returning than him but I lost the set. I said to me Okay you re playing good. You have to just try to keep going. And that s what I did for the second and the third set " the 2009 US Open champion Del Potro said.
Zverev who has already secured a berth in the ATP World Tour Finals in London fired 22 Aces in the match but couldn t find solutions when his opponent served.
Del Potro the 2013 Shanghai Masters runner-up will face either American no. 12 seed John Isner or Viktor Troicki of Serbia on Friday.
--IANS
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