Zverev is the No. 3 player in the world and had
the decided homecourt advantage but had his serve broken four
times by the 18-year-old en route to losing in one hour and 40
minutes. Rune, No. 70 in the world, scored the first top 10
victory of his career.
Rune will play Finland's Emil Ruusuvuori in the quarterfinals.
Ruusuvuori defeated Maxime Cressy 6-3, 6-3.
Seventh-seeded Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia ousted another
German, Daniel Altmaier, 6-2, 6-4 in 73 minutes.
Kecmanovic will get fourth-seeded Nikoloz Basilashvili of
Georgia in the quarters. Basilashvili needed to rally to get
past Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Millennium Estoril Open
Three Spaniards and an American each advanced from the Round of
16 with victories in Estoril, Portugal.
Fourth-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, sixth-seeded Albert
Ramos-Vinolas and lucky loser Fernando Verdasco secured
victories. Fifth-seeded Frances Tiafoe defeated wild card Nuno
Borges of Portugal 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-0.
Ramos-Vinolas, who defeated Soonwoo Kwon of South Korea 5-7,
6-1, 6-2 gets Verdasco in the quarterfinals.
Fokina, who defeated countryman Bernabe Zapata Miralles 6-3, 7-6
(5), gets Tiafoe in the quarters.
--Field Level Media
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