By Chris Oddo | Friday July 28, 2017
Two of the more fearsome forehands on the ATP got together on Friday night in Atlanta, and one of those forehands was not fooling around.
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That would be Kyle Edmund, who won nine of the final ten games to drop top-seeded Jack Sock from the BB&T Atlanta Open, 6-4, 6-1.
Down by a break at 3-4 in the opener when a delay was caused by a spectator that needed emergency medical attention, Edmund hit the ground running after the 15-minute interlude while Sock just drifted away.
Edmund steamrolled Sock in the second set, winning 31 of 45 total points and dropping just one point on serve.
The World No.45 advances to face American Ryan Harrison in Saturday’s second semifinal at Atlanta. Harrison swept past wild card Christopher Eubanks, 6-1,6-2, never giving the World No. 461 a chance to breathe in the 55-minute encounter.
Eubanks, an Atlanta native who plays collegiately at Georgia Tech, notched his first two career ATP wins to reach the quarterfinals this week, but was no match for a dialed-in Harrison.
The bottom-half semifinal will feature No.2-seeded John Isner and No.3-seeded Gilles Muller.
Isner, a three-time Atlanta champion improved to 25-4 lifetime at Atlanta with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Slovakia’s Lukas Lacko, while Muller eased past American Tommy Paul, 6-3, 6-1. Muller has won the last two meeting with Isner, but the American has won three of five including both of the pair’s meetings in Atlanta, in 2010 and 2011.