Austrian qualifier Filip Misolic rallied from down 5-2 in the second set and saved triple match point to force a tiebreaker on his way to upsetting Portuguese third seed Nuno Borges at the Nordea Open on Thursday in Bastad, Sweden.
Misolic surprised Borges 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3, flipping the momentum in his favor during the middle set and finishing with a 35-22 advantage in winners. He advanced the quarterfinals to face Argentine fifth seed Camilo Ugo Carabelli, who outlasted Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-3 in a two-hour, 50-minute marathon.
No. 1 seed Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina beat countryman Mariano Navone 6-3, 6-3. His upcoming quarterfinal foe, No. 7 seed Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia and Herzegovina, rallied for a 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over Frenchman Hugo Gaston.
EFG Swiss Open Gstaad
No. 2 seed Alexander Bublik won 80 percent (24 of 30) of his first-serve points and cruised to a 6-2, 6-3 win over fellow Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko in second-round action in Gstaad, Switzerland.
Fourth seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry wasn’t as fortunate, as France’s Arthur Cazaux took down the Argentine 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Cazaux smashed 16 aces past Etcheverry and saved 10 of 11 break points.
Also advancing to the quarterfinals were No. 7 seed Francisco Comesana and Juan Manuel Cerundolo, both of Argentina, plus Swiss wild card Jerome Kym.
Mifel Tennis Open
Top seed Andre Rublev of Russia rallied from a set down to knock off unseeded American Emilio Nava 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 in the quarterfinals in Los Cabos, Mexico.
No. 3 seed Denis Shapovalov of Canada swept Australia’s Tristan Schoolkate 6-3, 6-2. In the semifinals Friday, Shapovalov will play No. 8 seed Adam Walton, who defeated fellow Australian James Duckworth 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday.
No. 7 seed Aleksandar Kovacevic played Argentina’s Juan Pablo Ficovich in the late match. The winner of that was to face Rublev in the semifinals Friday.
–Field Level Media
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