Lyon Open: Darderi through to last eight
Luciano Darderi won against Adrian Mannarino 7-6 (4), 6-3 on Wednesday and will play the winner of the match between Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech and American Frances Tiafoe, the No 5 seed, in the next round
Luciano Darderi in Lyon (Sandrine Thesillat/Panoramic)
Italian Luciano Darderi moved into the quarter-finals of the Lyon Open by beating Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, the No 3 seed, 7-6 (4), 6-3 at Parc de la Tête d’or on Wednesday.
Darderi, ranked No 47, will play the winner of the match between Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech and American Frances Tiafoe, the No 5 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Lyon tournament, the 22-year-old Italian won against Japanese qualifier Taro Daniel (7-5, 7-6 (3)).
Lyon ATP 250, other second-round results (Parc de la Tête d’or, clay, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):
- Hugo Gaston vs. Francisco Cerundolo
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Frances Tiafoe
- Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
- Ugo Humbert vs. Dominik Koepfer: wednesday
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry (6) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 7-5, 3-0 ret.
- Alexander Bublik (2) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-4, 6-2
- Pavel Kotov beat Alexandre Muller (WC): 7-6 (8), 6-1
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