 Yarnlander's drill versus Aslan Karatev is the second semi-final for the Madrid Open for the men for 2023. And both guys are surprises to get to this stage. Karatev entered the tournament as a qualifier and would take on Jera in the first round. And after a couple of close sets, he would get through in straights 7-6-7-5. In the second round, he'd take on the 23rd seed van is Ansel. And after a close second set, he would get through in straights 6-2-7-5. In the third round, he'd take on the 16th seed Diminor. And after dropping his first set for the week, he would come back to win in 3-6-3-4-6-6-4. In the fourth round, he'd take on the number two seed Medvedev. And after winning a close first set, would beat him in straights 7-6-6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Karatev would take on Zhong, another surprise packet of the tournament. And after a close first set, Karatev would win in straights 7-6-6-4 to advance to the semi-finals. Strouf started the tournament off as a lucky loser and would come in for the injured Lesteon and take on Senegal in the first round. This is no problem for Strouf getting through in straights 6-3-6-1. In the second round, he'd take on Shelton, the 32nd seed. And after a fight back from a set down, getting through in 3-4-6-7-6-7-5. In the third round, he'd take on Lyovic, who was coming off three top 10 wins in the last couple of weeks. And again, after dropping the first set, he would have to fight back to win 6-7-6-3-6-3. In the fourth round, he'd take on Qashin, another unseeded player who had just taken out Tiafo in the previous round. And this was a grind, getting through in a long three set up, 7-6-6-7-6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Strouf would take on the number four seed City pass. He was looking like he was getting back to his clay court best. And after saving set points in the first set, Strouf would battle to win in 3-7-6-5-7-6-3 to advance to a semi-final. These two guys have actually not played before on the ATP tour and in the main draw, but they actually played earlier this week in the qualifying of this event. Carrots have ended up winning the qualifier match and Strouf became a lucky loser in this event. So it's a rematch of something that we saw before the tournament even began. If Strouf's going to win this one, he needs to use that big serve and the forehand to his advantage. He actually was hitting really good backhands as well against Steph. And he also came to the net a lot as well. This court seems to be suiting his game style a little bit as well. So he needs to make sure he does all of those things against Carrots if he's going to make his first final at this level. Carrots is going to win this one. He needs to make sure his forehand's on point. And he also probably needs to take over the baseline. He did so well against Zhong doing that style. He sort of took over the baseline and Zhong had to defend a lot. He's going to have to make Strouf move a lot in this match if he's going to get the win. This is such a random matchup. Nobody would have picked this at the start of the tournament. A big set of random match. Who knows who's going to win this one? But I'm going to go with Carrots just based on experience. And also because he won earlier in the week against the same guy. So I think Carrots is going to get the win here and make it to the first Masters 1000 final. But let me know down in the comments below. Who do you think is going to win this one?