Mexican Open: De Minaur rolls past Ofner into quarter-finals
Alex De Minaur won against Sebastian Ofner 6-1, 6-3 on Wednesday night and will play the winner of the match between Italian qualifier Flavio Cobolli and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 5 seed, in the next round
Alex de Minaur (Icon SMI/Panoramic)
Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 3 seed, beat Austrian Sebastian Ofner 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the quarter-finals of the Mexican Open at the Princess Mundo Imperial Resort in Acapulco on Wednesday night.
De Minaur, ranked No 9, will face the winner of the match between Italian qualifier Flavio Cobolli and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 5 seed, next.
The Australian won against Japanese Taro Daniel (6-2, 6-1) in the previous round of the Acapulco tournament.
In the previous round of the Acapulco tournament, Ofner, ranked No 37, edged out Mexican wildcard Ernesto Escobedo (6-7 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (4)).
Acapulco ATP 500, other second-round results (Princess Mundo Imperial Resort, hard, USD 2.206.080, most recent results first):
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Holger Rune
- Casper Ruud vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Ben Shelton vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Miomir Kecmanovic: thursday
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Dominik Koepfer: thursday
- Jack Draper beat Yoshihito Nishioka (LL): 6-3, 6-0
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