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Tsitsipas won 24 of his 25 first-serve points
and never faced a break point. Isner won just 19 of 32
first-serve points and had his serve broken three times.
Second-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany topped Serbia's Laslo
Djere 6-4, 6-3, and fifth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria,
seventh-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada and eighth-seeded
Casper Ruud of Norway also advanced to the quarterfinals.
Germany's Dominik Koepfer upset fourth-seeded Milos Raonic 6-4,
6-2, and Great Britain's Cameron Norrie eliminated sixth-seeded
Fabio Fognini of Italy 6-4, 6-4. In the lone match featuring two
unseeded players, Italy's Lorenzo Musetti rallied past the
United States' Frances Tiafoe, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1).
Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
Second-seeded Andrey Rublev of Russia needed just 64 minutes to
rout 15th-seeded Taylor Fritz of the United States 6-3, 6-1 in
the third round at Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Rublev never lost his serve while racking up 12 aces to Fritz's
six. Rublev's quarterfinal opponent will be Hungary's Marton
Fucsovics, who topped 11th-seeded Dusan Lajovic of Serbia 6-1,
4-6, 6-4.
Third-seeded Denis Shapovalov of Canada dumped 13th-seeded
Hubert Hurkacz of Poland 6-4, 6-3. Sixteenth-seeded Jannik
Sinner of Italy knocked off fourth-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut
of Spain 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, but eighth-seeded Karen Khachanov of
Russia, 14th-seeded Filip Krajinovic of Serbia and 17th-seeded
Lorenzo Sonego of Italy were upset.
--Field Level Media
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