Citi Open: American Korda eliminates 12th seed Baez

American Sebastian Korda advanced to the last 16 of the Citi Open with an upset win over Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 12 seed, at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington on Wednesday.

Korda won 6-1, 6-4 to advance and will play the winner of the match between Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 5 seed, and Frenchman Adrian Mannarino next.

The American said he has been feeling good after early losses in his last three tournaments.

“Slowly but surely it’s getting to where I want it to be”, Korda said. “I had a good first set in Atlanta last week. Unfortunately lost (against Daniel) but kind of just wasn’t physically ready to battle in the heat just yet, and just kind of getting my body ready to matches again. Just been feeling good on court, and hopefully I can just keep going.”

Korda, ranked No 54, had defeated Belarusian Ilya Ivashka 6-4, 7-6 (5) in his first round here.

Washington ATP 500, other second-round matches (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
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Adrian Mannarino : 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
• Alex De Minaur vs. Yoshihito Nishioka : to be played
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Hubert Hurkacz (2): 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Mikael Ymer beat Aslan Karatsev (15): 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
• 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