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Munar, ranked 60th in the world, needed 2 hours
and 27 minutes to take down the world's third-ranked player. He
won four points on Zverev's serve in the first-set tiebreaker,
then bounced back from a second-set loss to break Zverev three
consecutive times to close out the match.
The other seeded players in action also fell, as Spaniard Pablo
Andujar took down seventh-seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber
7-6 (6), 6-4, and Frenchman Benoit Paire dumped eighth-seeded
countryman Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-4, 6-2. Paire will face Munar
in the quarterfinals.
In the day's other match, Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic
dispatched Argentina's Juan Ignacio Londero 6-3, 6-4.
U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship
Top-seeded Steve Johnson was upset in front of a home crowd,
falling 6-3, 6-3 to Colombia's Daniel Elahi Galan in the second
round at Houston.
Galan, ranked No. 241 in the world, downed Johnson, ranked 39th,
in just 75 minutes, converting all three of his break points and
facing none on his own serve.
Third-seeded Cameron Norrie of Great Britain was also ousted,
losing 6-3, 6-4 to Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia. Eighth-seeded
American Sam Querrey had better luck, downing Spaniard Guillermo
Garcia-Lopez 6-4, 6-3.
In the evening's final match, seventh-seeded Australian Jordan
Thompson edged Colombia's Santiago Giraldo 4-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5 in
a 2-hour, 56-minute marathon.
--Field Level Media
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