Roberto Carballes Baena of Spain took down American fifth seed Maxime Cressy 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-1 within the Round of 32 on the Grand Prix Hassan II on Tuesday in Marrakech, Morocco.
Cressy served 9 aces however dedicated a whopping 20 double faults to place himself in a bind. Carballes Baena additionally pushed him to interrupt level 13 occasions, changing 5.
Two extra seeded gamers have been proven the door. France’s Alexandre Muller defeated countryman and No. 6 seed Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-4, and Italian qualifier Andrea Vavassori beat eighth seed Nicolas Jarry of Chile 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
Pavel Kotov of Russia, Bulgarian qualifier Dimitar Kuzmanov, Australian Christopher O’Connell and Swedish qualifier Elias Ymer additionally received their matches.
U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship
No. 7 seed Marcos Giron of the U.S. narrowly missed out on a double bagel, taking a 6-0, 5-0 lead on Emilio Gomez of Ecuador earlier than successful 6-0, 6-2 in first-round motion in Houston.
Gomez saved 4 match factors within the sixth recreation of the second set as a way to stave off the shutout.
American fifth seed J.J. Wolf received 22 of his 26 first-serve factors (84.6 p.c) en path to beating Australia’s Jordan Thompson 6-3, 6-2. Chile’s Cristian Garin swept previous Hugo Dellien of Bolivia 6-3, 6-0 in simply greater than 63 minutes, and German qualifier Yannick Hanfmann additionally superior.
Of the 2 remaining matches, the nightcap was scheduled to pit American Jack Sock, the 2015 champion at this occasion, towards Czech qualifier Tomas Machac.
Millennium Estoril Open
No. 8 seed Ben Shelton of the U.S. took down Frenchman Constant Lestienne 7-5, 7-5 within the first spherical in Estoril, Portugal.
Shelton had an 8-3 edge in aces and received 35 of 42 first-service factors (83.3 p.c).
Dominic Thiem of Austria rallied previous countryman Sebastian Ofner 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Thiem is in search of his first title since accumulating his lone grand slam trophy on the 2020 U.S. Open.
Serbian sixth seed Miomir Kecmanovic beat Italy’s Luca Nardi 6-4, 6-1. Other winners Tuesday included Frenchmen Quentin Halys and Luca Van Assche, Portuguese wild card Joao Sousa, Jurij Rodionov of Austria and Bernabe Zapata Miralles of Spain.
–Field Level Media