The Italian Lorenzo Musetti the reaction of the Spaniards stopped Charles Taberner and advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament Marrakesh after winning 6-1, 6-7 (3) and 6-3.
The transalpine, 82nd in the ATP ranking, without any title in his history, quarterfinalist in Rotterdam and Pune, equaled his best record of the season after beating the Spanish in two and a half hours.
The Spaniard has not made it into the last 16 until now in 2022. He improved in the second set to level the fight but he never extended his progress and was outclassed in the decisive set.
Musetti will face in the quarterfinals the winner of the duel between Tunisian Malek Jaziri and Serbian Laslo Djere, seeded eighth.
Previously, Belgian David Goffin met Spanish Pablo Andújar in the second round by beating Bosnian Damir Dzumhur (6-2 and 7-6 (3)).
He also did not advance in the contest Barnabas Zapatataken from the previous stage, which he defeated in Czech White Kopriva 6-1 and 6-4 in the 1st round. The Spaniard lost to Kopriva in the qualifying round to access the main draw. The Czech will face Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulp, sixth favorite.
Russian Pavel Kotov also entered the first round against Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor, ninth favorite (0-6, 6-2, 6-2) and will play Frenchman Richard Gasquet.
Bosnian Mirza Basic came behind Polish Kamil Majchrzak (4-6, 6-4 and 6-1) and will rival Argentine Federico Coria.
Source: La Verdad
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