Croatia Open: Sonego moves into last eight

Italian Lorenzo Sonego defeated Frenchman Alexandre Muller 7-5, 6-1 to reach the last eight of the Croatia Open at the ITC Stella Maris in Umag on Wednesday afternoon.

Sonego, ranked No 54, will play Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 4 seed, next.

The Italian edged out Croat wildcard Mili Poljicak (6-2, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (9)) in the previous round of the Umag tournament.

During the first round of the Umag tournament, Muller, ranked No 102, won against Italian Matteo Arnaldi, the No 8 seed (7-6 (8), 6-4).

Umag ATP 250, other second-round results (ITC Stella Maris, clay, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):

• Luciano Darderi vs. Jakub Mensik
• Fabio Fognini vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Marco Trungelliti vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Francisco Cerundolo beat Matej Dodig (WC): 6-3, 6-4
• Fabian Marozsan beat Thiago Monteiro: 6-2, 7-6 (7)
• Andrey Rublev (1) beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli: 6-4, 7-5