Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ended the giant-killing run of Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka on Friday, earning a 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 win to put a Frenchman into the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters for the second year in a row. Tsonga, seeded sixth, followed the 2012 example of Gilles Simon by reaching the final four with Wawrinka starting out strong but unable to continue the big-match success which led him to a third-round hammering of second seed Andy Murray.

Results from the third day of the Monte-Carlo Masters on Tuesday (x denotes seeding): 1st rd Albert Ramos (ESP) bt Radek Stepanek (CZE) 6-3, 6-3 Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x13) bt Denis Istomin (UZB) 6-3, 7-5 Marinko Matosevic (AUS) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 7-5, 6-3 Marcel Granollers (ESP) bt Victor Hanescu (ROM) 6-7 (8/10), 6-3, 6-1 Florian Mayer (GER) bt Benjamin Balleret (MON) 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 2nd rd Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) bt Janko Tipsarevic (CRO x8) 7-6 (7/3), 6-1

Richard Gasquet on Thursday withdrew from the French Davis Cup team to take on Argentina in a quarter-final tie in Buenos Aires this weekend. The French No.2, who has been sufferring with a blister on his foot, will be replaced in the singles by Gilles Simon. French No.1 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga plays in the two other singles rubbers. ap/jk/ak

Former winner and last year's runner up Andy Murray rallied from a set down to beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-7 (3/7), 6-1, 6-2 to reach the final of the ATP Tour's Miami Masters on Friday. The 2009 champion Murray dropped his first set of the tournament by losing the opening-set tiebreaker to eighth seed Gasquet, but he quickly made amends and dominated the final two sets to reach his third career Miami final. Murray, who is the lone British champion in tournament history, next faces Spaniard David Ferrer, who ended the brilliant run of Germany's Tommy Haas 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.