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Earlier, Grigor Dimitrov converted his third match point – over 24 hours after his first – to beat Jacob Fearnley and reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
The match was suspended during Monday’s outage with Dimitrov leading 6-4 5-4, and they resumed their match on Tuesday after Iga Swiatek’s battling three-set win over Diana Shnaider. <\/p>\n
Bulgaria’s Dimitrov eventually beat the 23-year-old Briton 6-4 7-6 (7-3).<\/p>\n
Fearnley had to serve to stay in the match when play began and, despite a double fault, did well to keep Dimitrov at bay.<\/p>\n
World number 16 Dimitrov had a second match point at 6-5 on the Fearnley serve but the Scot saved it to eventually force a tie-break.<\/p>\n
Dimitrov promptly took control of the breaker and won the last five points in a row.<\/p>\n
He sets up a meeting with Canada’s Gabriel Diallo, who beat Britain’s Cameron Norrie.<\/p>\n
Diallo, who only qualified for Madrid as a lucky loser, came from behind to beat Norrie – ranked 91st in the world – 2-6 6-4 6-4.<\/p>\n
Earlier, defending champion Swiatek won her ninth successive match in Madrid with a 6-0 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 victory over Russia’s Shnaider.<\/p>\n
Poland’s Swiatek was not at her best, committing over 50 unforced errors, but she saved 11 of the 13 break points she faced to get the edge over Shnaider.<\/p>\n
She will face Madison Keys – who beat her in the Australian Open semi-finals on her way to a maiden Grand Slam title – next after the American’s 6-2 6-3 victory over Donna Vekic of Croatia.<\/p>\n
Top-ranked Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and Daniil Medvedev, of Russia, are set to be in action later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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