Carreno Busta cruises into Winston-Salem third round

Wild card Pablo Carreno Busta defeated Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko, the No 13 seed, 6-2, 6-2 to move into the last 16 of the Winston-Salem Open at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex on Tuesday evening.

Carreno Busta, ranked No 300, will face Australian Aleksandar Vukic next.

Ahead of his victory, the 33-year-old Spaniard made quick work of qualifier Omni Kumar (6-2, 6-0).

Winston-Salem ATP 250, other second-round results:

• Marton Fucsovics vs. Alex Michelsen
• Hugo Gaston vs. Christopher Eubanks: tuesday
• Corentin Moutet vs. Roman Safiullin
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Zizou Bergs
• Juncheng Shang vs. Mariano Navone: tuesday
• Learner Tien vs. Fabian Marozsan: tuesday
• Borna Coric beat Sebastian Baez (1): 6-3, 6-4
• David Goffin beat Luciano Darderi (5): 6-2, 6-4
• Lorenzo Sonego (10) beat Dominic Stricker: 6-4, 6-1
• Pavel Kotov (15) beat Alexandre Muller: 6-4, 5-7, 6-2
• Thiago Seyboth Wild beat Nuno Borges (8): 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Zachary Svajda (LL) beat Francisco Cerundolo (3): 6-4, 6-4
• Arthur Rinderknech (12) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-3, 6-4
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Adrian Mannarino (4): 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-1
• Rinky Hijikata (16) beat Arthur Cazaux: 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)

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