Since the start of the week, Gaël Monfils and then the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka have also withdrawn from the Lyon clay court after announcing they were ill. Rinderknech eliminated the American Frances Tiafoe, 26th in the ATP rankings and seeded N.5, 7-6 (4), 6-4 on Wednesday.
Darderi, 47th player in the world, will face in the semi-final the Argentinian Tomas Etcheverry, seeded N.6 in the event who won Thursday at midday at the expense of the German Dominik Koepfer (N.67 ) 6-4, 6-1.
The last two quarter-finals will pit the Kazakh Alexander Bublik, 19th in the world and seeded N.2, against the Russian Pavel Kotov then two Frenchmen, Hugo Gaston (N.104) from qualifying, and Giovanni Mpetshi-Perricard (N.117). ), a young 20-year-old from Lyon who received an invitation.