Winston-Salem Open: Mmoh reaches last 16, plays top seed Coric next
Mmoh defeated fellow American Marcos Giron 6-3, 6-4 in the second round
Michael Mmoh at the 2020 Australian Open
Wildcard Michael Mmoh reached the last 16 of the Winston-Salem Open by winning against No 13 seed Marcos Giron 6-3, 6-4 at Wake Forest Tennis Complex on Tuesday.
Mmoh, ranked No 94, will play Croat Borna Coric, the top seed, next.
The American had defeated Barbadian qualifier Darian King (6-2, 3-6, 6-3) ahead of his win on Tuesday.
More Mmoh 🇺🇸in Winston-Salem 🎾
— TennisONE App (@TennisONEApp) August 23, 2023
He comes out with a 6-3, 6-4 win over fellow American Giron and he will face no.1 seed Coric in the round of 16#WSOpen pic.twitter.com/pPRxHaVVzm
Winston-Salem ATP250, other second-round results (Wake Forest Tennis Complex, hard, USD 760,930):
- Omni Kumar (LL) beat Botic van de Zandschulp (8): 6-3, 7-5
- Borna Coric beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-2, 7-6 (2)
- Jiri Lehecka (5) beat Mitchell Krueger (Q): 2-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Sebastian Korda (3) beat Benjamin Bonzi: 6-2, 6-3
- Aleksandar Vukic (9) beat Luca Van Assche: 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3
- Tallon Griekspoor (2) beat Jack Draper: 7-6 (8) ret.
- Juan Manuel Cerundolo beat Yannick Hanfmann (10): 7-6 (3), 5-7, 7-6 (4)
- Dominik Koepfer beat Strong Kirchheimer (LL): 6-3, 6-2
- Max Purcell beat Andrey Kuznetsov (LL): 6-4, 6-1
- Brandon Nakashima beat Arthur Fils (7): 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Alex Michelsen (WC) beat Sebastian Ofner (15): 7-6 (4), 7-5
- Laslo Djere (4) beat Facundo Diaz Acosta: 6-3, 6-3
- Richard Gasquet (12) beat Marc-Andrea Huesler: 6-4, 6-4
- Sebastian Baez (6) beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Marton Fucsovics (14) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 6-4, 6-2
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