Belgrade Open: O’Connell moves into last eight
Christopher O’Connell beat Daniel Altmaier on Wednesday and will play the winner of the match between Canadian Denis Shapovalov and Portuguese Nuno Borges next
Christopher O’Connell (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Australian Christopher O’Connell moved into the quarter-finals of the Belgrade Open by winning against German Daniel Altmaier 6-3, 6-1 at the Belgrade Arena on Wednesday.
O’Connell, ranked No 71, will play the winner of the match between Canadian qualifier Denis Shapovalov and Portuguese Nuno Borges, the No 5 seed, next.
The Australian defeated Serb Miomir Kecmanovic (6-1, 6-1) ahead of his victory.
In the previous round of the Belgrade tournament, Altmaier, ranked No 93, beat Italian Luciano Darderi, the No 8 seed (7-6 (1), 6-3).
Belgrade ATP 250, other second-round results (Belgrade Arena, hard, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):
- Duje Ajdukovic vs. Laslo Djere
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Nuno Borges: wednesday
- Francisco Cerundolo (3) beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 6-4
- Jiri Lehecka (4) beat Marin Cilic: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Lukas Klein (Q) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry (7): 6-4, 7-6 (6)
- Hamad Medjedovic (WC) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 7-6 (5), 6-4
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