Citi Open: M. Ymer upsets Karatsev and makes last 16
Mikael Ymer edged out Aslan Karatsev 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 on Wednesday evening. He’ll play Finn Emil Ruusuvuori in the next round
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Sweden’s Mikael Ymer edged out Russian Aslan Karatsev, the No 15 seed, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to reach the last 16 of the Citi Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington on Wednesday.
Ymer, ranked No 115, will face Finn Emil Ruusuvuori next. Ruusuvuori had knocked out the No2 seed Hubert Hurkacz earlier in the day.
The Swede had defeated Andy Murray (7-6 (8), 4-6, 6-1) in the first round.
Washington ATP 500, other second-round matchs (Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 2.108.110, most recent results first):
- Tommy Paul vs. Nick Kyrgios: to be played
- Christopher Eubanks vs. Frances Tiafoe: to be played
- Denis Kudla vs. Reilly Opelka: to be played
- Jack Sock vs. Maxime Cressy: to be played
- Taylor Fritz vs. Alexei Popyrin: to be played
- J.J. Wolf vs. Denis Shapovalov: to be played
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Adrian Mannarino: to be played
- Sebastian Korda vs. Sebastian Baez: to be played
- Alex De Minaur vs. Yoshihito Nishioka: to be played
- Emil Ruusuvuori beat Hubert Hurkacz (2): 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Holger Rune (9) beat Benoit Paire: 6-3, 6-2
- Karen Khachanov (7) 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
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