Citi Open: De Minaur out, Nishioka saves match point and moves into last 16

Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka advanced to the last 16 of the Citi Open by beating Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 11 seed, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington on Wednesday.

Nishioka, ranked No 96, will play Russian Karen Khachanov, the No 7 seed, next.

The Japanese player saved a match point when the score was 6-5 for De Minaur in the second set tiebreak.

In the previous round of the Citi Open, Washington D.C., Nishioka won against American Jenson Brooksby (6-4, 6-3). With this win, he has now eliminated the two finalists of the ATP 250 event in Atlanta last week as De Minaur had won the Atlanta Open on Sunday over Brooksby

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Tennis Majors

Washington ATP 500, other second-round matches (Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 2.108.110, most recent results first):

• Tommy Paul vs. Nick Kyrgios
• Christopher Eubanks vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Denis Kudla vs. Reilly Opelka
• Jack Sock vs. Maxime Cressy
• J.J. Wolf vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Taylor Fritz vs. Alexei Popyrin: wednesday
• Sebastian Korda beat Sebastian Baez (12): 6-1, 6-4
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Hubert Hurkacz (2): 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Mikael Ymer beat Aslan Karatsev (15): 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
• Holger Rune (9) beat Benoit Paire: 6-3, 6-2
• Karen Khachanov beat Dominik Koepfer (Q): 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4
• Botic van de Zandschulp (8) beat Borna Gojo (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-7 (5), 6-4
• Andrey Rublev (1) beat Jack Draper: 6-4, 6-2
• Daniel Evans (16) beat Kyle Edmund: 6-1, 6-2