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Wawrinka, the seventh seed, defeated the United
States' Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 on Thursday, but he emerged
from the match with renewed pain in his ailing back.
After the match, Wawrinka announced that he would be unable to
oppose Federer, the top seed, as scheduled on Friday.
"The disappointment is huge," Wawrinka said. "Not to be able to
play this match in Switzerland is very sad, but I need to listen
to my body at this point."
Federer will await the winner of the quarterfinal match between
third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and unseeded Filip
Krajinovic of Serbia. Tsitsipas rallied past Lithuania's
Ricardas Berankis 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4 in the second round
Thursday, and Krajinovic defeated fifth-seeded Fabio Fognini of
Italy 6-2, 6-4.
In other second-round action, the United States' Reilly Opelka
edged sixth-seeded David Goffin of Belgium 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4),
7-5, and fourth-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain topped
France's Richard Gasquet 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
Erste Bank Open
Home-country favorite Dominic Thiem, the top seed, advanced to
the quarterfinals in Vienna, Austria, with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win
over Spain's Fernando Verdasco.
Thiem dropped his serve in the second game of the match, then
never was broken again, saving the last three break points he
faced.
His quarterfinal opponent will be Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta,
who defeated Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-1.
Other second-round winners were fourth-seeded Gael Monfils of
France, fifth-seeded Diego Schwartzman of Argentina, qualifier
Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia and Andrey Rublev of Russia.
--Field Level Media
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