New Zealander Michael Venus and South African doubles partner Raven Klaasen have avenged their Wimbledon finals defeat to Mike Bryan and Jack Sock.
Michael Venus and Raven Klaasen Photo: Actionplus
The pair dispatched fourth seeds Bryan and Sock 7-6 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Toronto.
Bryan and Sock last month beat Venus and Klaasen 6-3 6-7 6-3 5-7 7-5 to win the Wimbledon men's final.
The 30-year-old New Zealander and his 35-year-old doubles partner will face top seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic in the semi-finals, after the Austrian/Croatian combination edged Jean-Julien Rojer (France) and Romania's Horia Tecau 6-7 7-5 10-6.
Venus and Klaasen had earlier knocked out fifth seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 6-3 5-7 11-9 to reach the last eight.
In the singles, Greek tyro Stefanos Tsitsipas' dream run continued as the teenager toppled defending champion Alexander Zverev 3-6 7-6(11) 6-4 to reach the semi-finals.
The win over world No.3 Zverev looked unlikely when the 19-year-old dropped the first set and fell behind 2-5 in the second.
But Tsitsipas managed to save two match points and shifted the momentum after edging Zverev in a marathon second-set tiebreak.
Extending the match paid off for Tsitsipas as Zverev made a number of uncharacteristic errors in a tight third set and he handed the world No.27 victory with a double fault on match point.
The win was the Greek's third straight over a top 10 opponent after he dispatched Dominic Thiem and Novak Djokovic in the previous two rounds.
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