Croatia Open: Home hope wildcard Prizmic knocks out Piros to advance to quarter-finals

Croat wildcard Dino Prizmic moved into the last eight of the Croatia Open by beating Hungarian Zsombor Piros 6-2, 6-3 at the ITC Stella Maris in Umag.

Prizmic, ranked No 287, will face Australian Alexei Popyrin next.

The 17-year-old Croat won against wildcard Duje Ajdukovic (6-1, 6-2) ahead of his victory.

In the previous round of the Umag tournament, Piros, ranked No 124, defeated Australian Christopher O’Connell, the No 5 seed (6-3, 6-4).

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

• Marco Cecchinato vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Jaume Munar vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Taro Daniel vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Dominic Thiem
• Matteo Arnaldi (7) beat Flavio Cobolli: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Alexei Popyrin beat Sebastian Ofner (3): 6-4, 6-1