American Frances Tiafoe, the No 5 seed, emerged victorious against Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan with a score of 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the round of 16 at the Citi Open held at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington on Tuesday night.
Tiafoe, who is currently ranked No 29, is set to face the winner of the match between Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena, the No 11 seed, and American Aleksandar Kovacevic in the next round.
In the previous round of the Washington D.C. tournament, Galan, ranked No 124, defeated American qualifier Maxime Cressy with a score of 6-4, 6-3.
Here are some other second-round results from the Washington ATP 500 tournament at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center on hard court with a total prize money of USD 2.1 million:
– Radu Albot vs. Ben Shelton
– Reilly Opelka vs. Jordan Thompson
– Andrey Rublev vs. Luca Van Assche
– Seong-Chan Hong vs. Karen Khachanov
– Alex Michelsen vs. Mattia Bellucci
– David Goffin vs. Flavio Cobolli
– Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
– Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
– Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Mitchell Krueger
– Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Aleksandar Vukic
– Juncheng Shang vs. Arthur Rinderknech
– Denis Shapovalov (WC) defeated Adrian Mannarino (6) with a score of 6-2, 6-1
– Brandon Nakashima (13) defeated Christopher O’Connell with a score of 6-2, 6-2
– Sebastian Korda (4) defeated Cristian Garin with a score of 6-3, 6-2
– Miomir Kecmanovic (12) defeated J.J. Wolf (WC) with a score of 6-2, 6-3
