Andy Murray, persevering after he twisted his left ankle in the second set, outlasted Tommy Haas 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8) in their night match to advance to the men's semifinals. He will face another 19-year-old, Novak Djokovic, who beat David Ferrer 6-3, 6-4.
The other semifinal will match No. 2 Rafael Nadal against No. 3 Andy Roddick. The men's final is Sunday.
Murray, from Scotland, turned his ankle and took a scary-looking tumble in the third game of the second set. Rushing to his right to hit a forehand, he stepped awkwardly on his left foot and went down in a heap, clutching his ankle and cringing.
He spent some 10 minutes sitting on the court, had his ankle taped, rose and stepped on his left foot rather gingerly, then was ready to play again.
Up 2-0 in the second set when he went down, Murray didn't seem to favor the ankle when play resumed, covering the court well and walking without a noticeable limp.
Following the match, he said that the pain in his ankle subsided relatively quickly, but that his right hip -- which he landed on when he fell -- began to bother him, and so did the large scrape on his right knee. Earlier in the match, he had a large blister on the ball of his right foot treated.
"I just hope tomorrow when I wake up, everything's not sore," said Murray, whose semifinal is scheduled to begin around 7:30 p.m. EDT.
Djokovic, from Serbia, has been on a roll. He won at Adelaide in the first week of the year and has reached the quarterfinals or better in five of the six events he's played.
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