ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, semifinals, LIVE: Báez and Cerúndolo play for their ticket to the final. Navone, 22, will face the British Cameron Norrie.

Seba showed character despite having the public against him and eliminated the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro 6-4, 1-6 and 6-2. And he was not one but three. The most recent, a hard-fought 2-6, 6-3,6-3 victory against Joao Fonseca, the 17-year-old local sensation.