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No. 1 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, who already is into the semifinals in the doubles with his brother Petros, takes the court in singles for the first time Thursday in Antwerp.

He met Botic Van de Zandschulp. who has had an awful season but a pretty good week so far, and beat him in straight sets.

In Tokyo, No. 1 seed Taylor Fritz and No. 4 Alex de Minaur are in action. And Fritz lost another shocker.

WTA Tour – Thursday results

(Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of EDT; Stockholm and Antwerp are six hours ahead).

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Japan Open Tennis Championships
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Category: ATP 500
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Dates: Oct. 16 – 22, 2023
Prize money: $2,022,700
Draws: S32 – 16

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023
Final results

Singles, second round

[WC] Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) def [1] Taylor Fritz (USA) 06 64 76 (2)

[4] Alex de Minaur (AUS) def. Diego Schwartzman (ARG) 60 75

Aslan Karatsev (RUS) def. Zhizhen Zhang (CHN) 63 64
Alexei Popyrin (AUS) def. [Q] Cristian Garin (CHI) 46 76 (3) 62

Doubles, quarterfinals

Jamie Murray (GBR) / Michael Venus (NZL) def [4] Sander Gille / Joran Vliegen (BEL) 46 75 [10-5]

[3] Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) def Ben McLachlan / Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) 63 76 (3)

Rinky Hijikata / Max Purcell (AUS) def. [WC] Sho Shimabukuro / Yosuke Watanuki (JPN) 76 (6) 64
Nathaniel Lammons / Jackson Withrow (USA) def. [LL] Kaichi Uchida / Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 63 64

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European Open
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Category: ATP 250
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Dates: Oct. 16 – 22, 2023
Prize money: €750,950
Draws: S28 – D16

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023
Final results

Singles, second round

Hugo Gaston (FRA) def [2] Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) 57 76 (5) 76 (11)

[1] Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) def. Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) 75 63
[5] Yannick Hanfmann (GER) def. Dominic Thiem (AUT) 64 57 64

[Q] Maximilian Marterer (GER) def Nuno Borges (POR) 63 76 (3)

Doubles, quarterfinals

[3] Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) / Hugo Nys (MON) def Alexander Bublik (KAZ) / Alexander Shevchenko (RUS) 62 63

Romain Arneodo (MON) / Sam Weissborn (AUT) def Robin Haase (NED) / Philipp Oswald (AUT) 64 75
Ariel Behar (URU) / Adam Pavlasek (CZE) def. Reese Stalder / Evan King (USA) 76 (2) 64

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BNP Paribas Nordic Open
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Category: ATP 250
Surface: Indoor Hard
Dates: Oct. 16 – 22, 2023
Prize money: €750,950
Draws: S28 – D16

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023
Final results

Singles, second round

[2] Adrian Mannarino (FRA) def. Roman Safiullin (RUS) 64 64

[LL] Tomas Machac (CZE) def Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 64 61
[PR] Gael Monfils (FRA) def. [Q] Filip Misolic (AUT) 64 63
[WC] Elias Ymer (SWE) def. [Q] Dino Prizmic (CRO) 63 36 62