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Second-seeded Frances Tiafoe routed countryman
Mackenzie McDonald 6-1, 6-3, and sixth-seeded J.J. Wolf ousted
Moldova's Radu Albot 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Tiafoe, who got a first-round bye, needed just 58 minutes to
dispatch McDonald. He won 85 percent of his first-serve points
and saved the only break point he faced.
Wolf worked in and out of trouble on his serve, saving nine of
Albot's 10 break points. After winning five consecutive points
early in the second-set tiebreaker, Wolf sealed the victory on
his third match point.
In the last match of the night, China's Yibing Wu upset
third-seeded Denis Shapovalov of Canada 7-6 (1), 6-4 in
second-round action.
Ecuador's Emilio Gomez and two Germans, Oscar Otte and Daniel
Altmaier, won first-round matches.
Cordoba Open
Chilean wild-card entrant Tomas Barrios Vera rallied for a 5-7,
6-4, 6-3 win over eighth-seeded Bernabe Zapata Miralles of Spain
in the second round at Cordoba, Argentina.
Barrios Vera, who is ranked 212th in the world, is playing in
his first main-draw ATP Tour event since losing in the first
round of the 2022 Australian Open. He prevailed on Wednesday
despite serving no aces and putting just 58 percent of his first
serves in play.
Joining Barrios Vera in the quarterfinals is fourth-seeded
Sebastian Baez of Argentina, who defeated Italian qualifier
Luciano Darderi 6-3, 6-4.
Bolivian qualifier Hugo Dellien, Italy's Marco Cecchinato and
Portugal's Joao Sousa posted first-round wins.
Open Sud de France
France's Arthur Fils upset fourth-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut
of Spain 6-3, 6-4 in the second round at Montpellier, France.
Fils, an 18-year-old wild-card entrant who is ranked No. 163 in
the world, had never won a main-draw match on the ATP Tour
before this week.
Second-seeded Jannik Sinner of Italy also moved into the
quarterfinals when he got a walkover win over Hungary's Marton
Fucsovics, who had an injury.
Fifth-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain,
seventh-seeded Emil Ruusuvuori of Finland and Gregoire Barrere
of France won their opening-round matches.
--Field Level Media
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