Marseille Open: Struff reaches quarter-finals
Jan-Lennard Struff edged out Hugo Grenier 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 on Thursday evening. He’ll play Russian Daniil Medvedev, the top seed, in the next round
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German Jan-Lennard Struff advanced to the quarter-finals of the Marseille Open by edging out French qualifier Hugo Grenier 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 at the Palais des sports on Thursday evening.
Struff, ranked No 46, will play Russian Daniil Medvedev, the top seed, next.
The 34-year-old German defeated French lucky loser Manuel Guinard (7-5, 7-6 (4)) ahead of his victory.
In the previous round of the Marseille tournament, Grenier, ranked No 202, won against qualifier Arthur Gea (7-5, 6-4).
Marseille ATP 250, other second-round results (Palais des sports, hard, EUR 767.545, most recent results first):
- Daniil Medvedev beat Pierre-Hugues Herbert (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Hubert Hurkacz (4): 6-4, 6-7 (1), 6-3
- Zizou Bergs beat Nuno Borges (8): 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-2
- Ugo Humbert (2) beat Alexander Bublik: 7-6 (7), 6-4
- Hamad Medjedovic beat Karen Khachanov (3): 6-2, 6-3
- Daniel Altmaier beat Otto Virtanen: 6-4, 6-3
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Luca Van Assche
