Guillermo Garcia-Lopez stunned world number one Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals of the PTT Thailand Open in Bangkok.
The unseeded Spaniard saved a staggering 24 of the 26 break points he faced to come from a set down to defeat his fellow countryman.
Sixteen of them came in the second set and the 27-year-old saved every single one on his way to a 2-6 7-6 (7/3) 6-3 win in two hours 45 minutes.
"I have never beaten a number one player in the world before. I've beaten some good top 10 players, but never a number one," Garcia-Lopez said on www.atpworldtour.com.
"I think it was the best match of my career. I think the tie-break in the second set was the key. I felt much better after that and I was playing great at the end. Everything went perfectly."
Nadal said: "I had a lot of break point chances in the second set, too many chances.
"He played a great match especially in the third set, but I was playing better than him in the beginning. I didn't play the break points well. With 26 opportunities to break you have to take your chances.
"It's a difficult loss to accept. I was playing well and had a good opportunity to get to the final."
Garcia-Lopez will play Jarkko Nieminen in the final after the Finn beat Germany's Benjamin Becker 6-3 6-2.
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