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Griekspoor led 3-0 in the third set, and he
served for the match at 5-3. Rublev knocked off three match
points and broke serve. In the decisive tiebreaker, Rublev
needed three match points of his own to advance to the
quarterfinals.
Second-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada also needed three
set to move on, downing Australia's Jason Kubler 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Third-seeded Russian Daniil Medvedev topped British qualifier
Liam Broady 6-4, 6-3.
Great Britain's Andy Murray upset fourth-seeded Alexander
Zverev of Germany 7-6 (5), 2-6, 7-5, and Australia's Christopher
O'Connell came from behind to beat fifth-seeded Roberto Bautista
Agut of Spain 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Seventh-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain, French
qualifier Alexandre Muller and the Czech Republic's Jiri Lehecka
also reached the quarterfinals.
Open 13 Provence
Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka and France's Benjamin Bonzi both
overcame a one-set deficit to advance to the quarterfinals in
Marseille, France.
Bonzi eliminated fifth-seeded Maxime Cressy of the United
States 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3, and Wawrinka overtook seventh-seeded
Richard Gasquet of France 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. Kazakhstan's Alexander
Bublik also won his second-round match, defeating France's
Gregoire Barrere 6-4, 6-2.
In the tournament's final two first-round matches, French
wild-card entrant Arthur Fils topped Russia's Roman Safiullin
6-4, 6-3, and Sweden's Mikael Ymer handled Moldova's Radu Albot
6-3, 7-6 (5).
Rio Open
No. 1 seed Carlos Alcaraz of Spain resumed his first-round
match in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday and needed just two games
to close out a 6-4, 6-4 win over Brazilian wild card Mateus
Alves.
The match had been suspended a day earlier due to rain with
Alcaraz up 6-4, 5-3.
Sixth-seeded Sebastian Baez of Argentina closed out a suspended
match with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Brazilian wild card Thomaz
Bellucci, while Serbia's Dusan Lajovic completed his two-day
match by beating fifth-seeded Diego Schwartzman of Argentina
6-1, 6-4.
Second-seeded Cameron Norrie of Great Britain and Bolivia's
Hugo Dellien both won second-round matches. Italy's Fabio
Fognini and Bernabe Zapata Miralles and seventh-seeded Albert
Ramos-Vinolas, both of Spain, posted opening-round wins.
--Field Level Media
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