Korea Open: Nishioka through to quarter-finals, winning the 100% Japanese match-up

Yoshihito Nishioka won against Taro Daniel 6-2, 6-4 to move into the last eight of the Korea Open at the Seoul Olympic Park on Thursday.

Nishioka, ranked No 56, will play the winner of the match between Norwegian Casper Ruud, the top seed, and Chilean qualifier Nicolas Jarry next.

In the previous round of the Seoul, Yoshihito Nishioka defeated No 5 seed Daniel Evans (6-2, 7-6 (3)). Daniel, ranked No 92, beat Ecuadorian Emilio Gomez (6-4, 6-4).

Seoul ATP 250, other second-round matches (Seoul Olympic Park, hard, USD 1.237.570, most recent results first):

• Casper Ruud vs. Nicolas Jarry : later today
• Mackenzie McDonald beat Shintaro Mochizuki (LL): 6-3, 6-4
• Aleksandar Kovacevic (LL) beat Chun-Hsin Tseng: 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 6-2
• Jenson Brooksby (8) beat SoonWoo Kwon: 6-3, 6-4
• Cameron Norrie (2) beat Kaichi Uchida (WC): 6-2, 6-2
• Radu Albot beat Steve Johnson: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
• Denis Shapovalov (4) beat Jaume Munar: 7-5, 6-4