No. 6 seed Max Purcell beat fellow Australian
Rinky Hijikata 6-3, 6-3. No. 7 seed Sebastian Ofner of Austria
got past Ukraine's Vitaliy Sachko 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, while eighth
seed Marton Fucsovics of Hungary beat French qualifier Terence
Atmane 7-6 (4), 6-3.
Other winners Tuesday included Jack Draper and Billy Harris of
Great Britain, Turkish wild card Cem Ilkel, Russia's Pavel Kotov,
Hungary's Fabian Marozsan, Australia's Christopher O'Connell,
Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas and Austrian Jurij Rodionov.
Moselle Open
No. 4 seed Ugo Humbert battled past Austria's Dominic Thiem 7-6
(5), 4-6, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals in Metz, France.
Humbert smashed 11 aces and won 48 of his 57 first-service
points (84.2 percent) while saving four of six break points he
faced to get past the former world No. 3. His next opponent will
be countryman Harold Mayot, a qualifier who outlasted fellow
Frenchman Gregoire Barrere 7-6 (2), 2-6, 7-6 (5).
No. 3 seed Karen Khachanov of Russia is also into the quarters
after defeating Constant Lestienne of France 6-4, 6-4.
In Round of 32 action, Hungarian lucky loser Mate Valkusz upset
No. 9 seed Daniel Altmaier of Germany 6-2, 6-2. Italian wild
card Fabio Fognini won two tiebreakers to beat Thiago Seyboth
Wild of Brazil 7-6 (3), 7-6 (9), and Jordan's Abdullah Shelbayh
beat France's Hugo Gaston 7-6 (5), 6-2.
--Field Level Media
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