For Hurkacz, seeded eighth in Montreal, it will be his fourth semifinal at a masters tournament. It was his second win over Kyrgios this year after both had previously met on Halle’s grass. Not much later, the Australian reached the final at Wimbledon, in which the Serb Novak Djokovic was too strong.
Kyrgios returned to the tennis court this month and immediately won the Washington tournament. That was his first ATP title in three years. In the third set he seemed to have all kinds of aches and pains that disturbed his concentration. Kyrgios had previously eliminated first-seeded Russian Daniil Medvedev.