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The 19-year-old won his maiden ATP title at Umag last year.
Earlier this week, he became the youngest player to earn a
top-five ATP Tour ranking since countryman Rafael Nadal.
Alcaraz will face Argentina's Facundo Bagnis in the
quarterfinals after Bagnis swept past France's Corentin Moutet
6-3, 6-1.
A pair of seeded players fell to Italian qualifiers Thursday.
Franco Agamenone rallied to defeat Argentine fourth seed
Seabstian Baez 3-6, 6-1, 7-5, and Marco Cecchinato defeated
fellow Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the eighth seed, 6-4, 6-3.
Generali Open
No. 3 seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain dropped his first set
before pushing through for a 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 victory over Jiri
Lehecka of the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals in Kitzbuhel,
Austria.
Bautista Agut trailed 5-3 in the second set before winning four
straight games to extend the match. He put the two-hour,
56-minute match to bed on his third match point in the deciding
set.
In an all-Spanish duel, fifth seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas took
down seventh seed Pedro Martinez 6-4, 6-2, and Germany's Yannick
Hanfmann ended the run of former world No. 3 Dominic Thiem of
Austria with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 win.
Atlanta Open
Second-seeded John Isner -- a six-time Atlanta champion -- was
pushed to the limit before advancing to the quarterfinals in his
latest title defense.
Isner edged fellow American Ben Shelton 7-6 (8), 4-6, 7-6 (3).
Shelton got the only service break of the match in the first
game of the second set. Each player had just two break points
overall.
In other second-round action, third-seeded Alex de Minaur beat
fellow Australian James Duckworth 6-4, 6-4. Sixth-seeded Jenson
Brooksby defeated Mackenzie McDonald 6-3, 6-4 in an all-United
States affair, and France's Adrian Mannarino was a 7-5, 6-3
winner over the United States' Andres Martin.
--Field Level Media
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