After the loss of the top two seeds in the Winston-Salem Open on Tuesday, seeds followed three, four and five on Wednesday and Matteo Arnaldi of Italy, the sixth seed, followed the highest ranked player.
The third round victims at the ATP 250-level event, include Luciano Dardieri (3), Gabriel Diallo (4) and Lorenzo Sonego (5) who fell on Miomir Kecmanovic (6-3 6-1, Hamad Medjedovic (6-4 6-2).
It leaves Sebastian Korda, as a strong competition for the title of the latest warm-up event before the US Open that starts on Monday, because, despite the dropout set on Wednesday, the 11th seed was unbroken when he went to the quarterfinals, 6-7 (3) 6-4 in his victory over Polen Majchr.
“It was a roller coaster today, I just waited for my turn,” said the 25-year-old son of the former Australian open champion Petr Korda, Korda, who is arranged 86 in the world.
“He played some great tennis, so I just waited to see if his level dropped a bit. Fortunately I played a solid second game in the second set and I started playing much better.”
He saved all six breakpoints with which he was confronted and will then meet the 13th seed of Kecmanovic with whom he is bound by 1 All from their earlier meetings.
Buyunchaoketeis is also very much in the race for the title, because he became the first Chinese player to reach the last eight in Winston-Salem in the history of the tournament when he defeated the Mariano Navone of Spain 6-4 6-4, who beat the best of the best on Tuesday.
In other action ninth seed Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard won the fully French battle with Alexandre Muller 6-3 6-2, while Hungarian Marton Fucsovics 2017 champion from Spain, Roberto Bautista Agut. 6-4 6-3.
In the meantime, Botic van de Zandschulpp was briefly briefly broke into his opening set with Sebastain Baez of Argentina, but the Dutchman recovered to turn the tables and the South American, the 2023 champion, 0-6, 6-1 6-4.
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