Croatia Open: Popyrin eases past Ofner to make quarter-finals

Australian Alexei Popyrin defeated Austrian Sebastian Ofner, the No 3 seed, 6-4, 6-1 to move into the quarter-finals of the Croatia Open at the ITC Stella Maris in Umag.

Popyrin, ranked No 90, will face the winner of the match between Croat wildcard Dino Prizmic and Hungarian Zsombor Piros next.

The Australian won against Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi (6-4, 7-5) in the previous round of the Umag tournament.

Umag ATP250, other second-round results (ITC Stella Maris, clay, EUR 562.815, most recent results first):

• Marco Cecchinato vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Taro Daniel vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Dominic Thiem
• Dino Prizmic vs. Zsombor Piros
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Matteo Arnaldi