Dubai Tennis Championships
Tallon Griekspoor rallied to defeat defending champion Ugo Humbert of France 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday, advancing to the quarterfinals. The Dutchman served 13 aces and will meet top seed Daniil Medvedev, who posted a 6-4, 6-4 victory over France’s Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard. Medvedev, the 2023 Dubai champion, made his third straight quarterfinal here.
Felix Auger-Aliassime (Canada) outlasted Portugal’s Nuno Borges 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, while Croatia’s Marin Cilic topped Russia’s Alexei Popyrin 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Italians Luca Nardi and Matteo Berrettini, as well as French qualifier Quentin Halys, also moved on. Nardi and Halys will face off, and Berrettini is set to battle No. 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas after the Greek outlasted Karen Khachanov 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-4.
Abierto Mexicano Telcel (Acapulco, Mexico)
The top five seeds all exited, and only two completed their matches. Learner Tien (U.S.) stunned top-seeded Alexander Zverev (Germany) 6-3, 6-4, rallying from a 4-1 hole in the second set. Second-seeded Casper Ruud (Norway) and third-seeded Tommy Paul (U.S.) withdrew with stomach illnesses, handing quarterfinal berths to Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez (Mexico) and Marcos Giron (U.S.). Fourth-seeded Holger Rune (Denmark) retired down 0-3 versus Brandon Nakashima (U.S.) due to food poisoning.
Belgium’s David Goffin topped fifth-seeded Ben Shelton (U.S.) 7-6 (3), 6-3, and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (Spain) upset seventh-seeded Frances Tiafoe (U.S.) 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3. Eighth-seeded Tomas Machac (Czech Republic) and ninth-seeded Denis Shapovalov (Canada) won in straight sets.
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Movistar Chile Open (Santiago, Chile)
Top-seeded Francisco Cerundolo (Argentina) needed a third-set tiebreak to dispatch Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (5). Both players broke early in the final set, but Cerundolo’s final three tiebreak points sealed the match. Serbia’s Laslo Djere (6-1, 6-4 vs. Pedro Martinez), Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry (6-2, 6-4 vs. Cristian Garin), and Portugal’s Jaime Faria (6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 6-4 vs. Gustavo Heide) also advanced.
