October 29, 2024

Open Court

MORE TENNIS THAN YOU'LL EVER NEED

The Barcelona tournament welcomed back Rafael Nadal, who won routinely Tuesday but had a thoroughly different customer Wednesday in Alex de Minaur.

Lots of other seeds in the house: Casper Ruud, Alex de Minaur, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Lorenzo Musetti and more as the second round wraps up.

In Munich, top seed and homey Alexander Zverev got under way, after a first-round bye. He had to wait through a long delay, but got it done.

But in Bucharest, Cana-Chilean Alejandro Tabilo, scheduled for double duty in singles and doubles, only got the singles done as the doubles was rained out. He’s in the quarterfinals, though.

(Barcelona and Munich are 6 hours ahead of EDT; Bucharest is 7 hours ahead).

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Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Category: ATP 500
Dates:
April 15 – 21, 2024
Prize money: €2,938,695
Draws: S48 – D16

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Final results

Singles, second round

Retirements/Walkovers

[11] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) def Tomas Machac (CZE) WALKOVER

[17] Fabian Marozsan (HUN) def. Luca Van Assche (FRA) 60 32 retd

 

Upsets

Dusan Lajovic (SRB) def [6] Ugo Humbert (FRA) 64 64

[Q] Marco Trungelliti (ARG) def [9] Nicolas Jarry (CHI) 76 (5) 63

Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) def. [10] Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) 76 (4) 64

 

Seeds advancing

[3] Casper Ruud (NOR) def. Alexandre Muller (FRA) 63 64

[4] Alex de Minaur (AUS) def. [PR] Rafael Nadal (ESP) 75 61

[5] Stefanos Tsitsipas  (GRE) def. Sebastian Ofner (AUT) 64 75 

[14] Jordan Thompson (AUS) def Jaume Munar (ESP) 64 26 64

[16] Arthur Fils  (FRA) def Daniel Altmaier (GER) 64 16 61

 

Other results

[WC] Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) def. [LL] Andrea Vavassori (ITA) 46 63 61

 

Doubles, first round

Wesley Koolhof (NED) / Nikola Mektic (CRO) def [3] Rajeev Ram (USA) / Joe Salisbury (GBR) 75 64

 

[1] Marcel Granollers (ESP) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) def. [WC] Oriol Roca BatallaDaniel Rincon (ESP) 63 57 [10-5]

[2] Ivan Dodig (CRO) / Neal Skupski (GBR) def. Jamie Murray (GBR) / Michael Venus (NZL) 64 76 (4)

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BMW Open
Location: Munich, Germany
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Category: ATP 250
Dates:
April 15 – 21, 2024
Prize money: €651,865
Draws: S28 – D16

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Final results

Singles, second round

[1] Alexander Zverev (GER) def. Jurij Rodionov (AUT) 76 (3) 62

[6] Jack Draper (GBR) def. [WC] Rudolf Molleker (GER) 46 61 61

 

Cancelled

[3] Taylor Fritz (USA) vs. [Q] Alejandro Moro Canas (ESP)

Cristian Garin (CHI) vs. Alex Michelsen (USA)

 

Doubles quarterfinal

[WC] Andreas Mies / Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) def. [4] Ariel Behar (URU) / Adam Pavlasek (CZE) 63 76 (3)

 

Doubles, first round

Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Albano Olivetti (FRA) def [3] Sander Gille / Joran Vliegen (BEL) 46 76 (5) [10-6]

 

Robert Galloway / Evan King (USA) def John Peers / John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 63 64

Théo Arribage (FRA) / Victor Vlad Cornea (ROU) def. Marcelo Demoliner / Marcelo Melo (BRA) 63 62

Cancelled

[ALT] Jakob Schnaitter / Mark Wallner (GER) vs. [PR] Marcus Daniell (NZL) / Philipp Oswald (AUT)

 

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Tiriac Open
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Category: ATP 250
Dates:
April 15 – 21, 2024
Prize money: €651,865
Draws: S28 – D16

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Final results

Singles, second round

[4] Alejandro Tabilo (CHI) def. Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) 63 64

 

[WC] Joao Fonseca (BRA) vs. [Q] Radu Albot (MDA) – 01 suspended

 

Cancelled

[1] Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) vs. Federico Coria (ARG)

[5] Mariano Navone (ARG) vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild (BRA)

 

Singles, first round

[Q] Grégoire Barrere (FRA) def. Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) 75 63

 

Doubles, first round

Nuno Borges (POR) / Reese Stalder (USA) def. [WC] Marius Copil / Bogdan Pavel (ROU) 63 75

 

Cancelled

[1] Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) / Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) vs. Fabrice Martin (FRA) / Denys Molchanov (UKR)

[3] Harri Heliovaara (FIN) / Henry Patten (GBR) vs. Francisco Cabral (POR) / Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ)

[4] Nicolas Barrientos (COL) / Rafael Matos (BRA) vs. Pedro Martinez (ESP) / Alejandro Tabilo (CHI)

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