Belgrade Open: O’Connell moves into last eight
Christopher O’Connell beat Daniel Altmaier on Wednesday and will play the winner of the match between Canadian Denis Shapovalov and Portuguese Nuno Borges next
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Australian Christopher O’Connell moved into the quarter-finals of the Belgrade Open by winning against German Daniel Altmaier 6-3, 6-1 at the Belgrade Arena on Wednesday.
O’Connell, ranked No 71, will play the winner of the match between Canadian qualifier Denis Shapovalov and Portuguese Nuno Borges, the No 5 seed, next.
The Australian defeated Serb Miomir Kecmanovic (6-1, 6-1) ahead of his victory.
In the previous round of the Belgrade tournament, Altmaier, ranked No 93, beat Italian Luciano Darderi, the No 8 seed (7-6 (1), 6-3).
Belgrade ATP 250, other second-round results (Belgrade Arena, hard, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):
- Duje Ajdukovic vs. Laslo Djere
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Nuno Borges: wednesday
- Francisco Cerundolo (3) beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 6-4
- Jiri Lehecka (4) beat Marin Cilic: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Lukas Klein (Q) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry (7): 6-4, 7-6 (6)
- Hamad Medjedovic (WC) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 7-6 (5), 6-4
