De Miñaur and Jarry advance to quarterfinals
- The Australian and the Chilean easily beat Argentinean Tirante and Dutchman Brouwer.
- Coric and Koepfer, fourth and seventh seeds, also sealed their pass to the quarterfinals.
Los Cabos, August 2, 2023.- Australian Alex de Miñaur and Chilean Nicolás Jarry, fifth and sixth seeds, beat their respective rivals, Argentinean Thiago Agustín Tirante and Dutchman Gijs Brouwer on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Mifel Tennis Open by Telcel Oppo.
The victory of the Australian, champion of the Acapulco ATP 500, was relatively accessible and he closed it out in 65 minutes.
“It’s a matter of finding my game every day, today was a little better and I’m happy to be in the next round where I’m going to have to raise my level to face Tommy Paul,” De Miñaur said at a press conference.
De Miñaur and Paul starred in the final in Acapulco and now they will face each other again in the quarterfinals of Los Cabos.
“It’s going to be a very tough match, as it was in Acapulco”, said the Australian, who is looking for the double in Mexico.
On his part, the sixth seed, the Chilean Jarry advanced to the round of the best eight by achieving a hard-fought 7-6, 4-6, 6-4 victory over the Dutchman Brouwer in two hours and 40 minutes of match.
“There are matches that you have to win no matter what and today was one of those, it is very important because at this level everyone is strong,” said Jarry after the match. The Chilean will play in the next round against the winner of the duel between the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas and the American John Isner.
Earlier, fourth-seeded Croatian Borna Coric beat Jason Jung of Chinese Taipei 6-1, 6-2 in 65 minutes of play. Another Croatian, Borna Gojo lost 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 to eighth-seeded Ilya Ivashka, while seventh-seeded German Dominik Koepfer defeated Australian James Duckworth in 70 minutes.
In the quarterfinals, Coric will face Ivashka and German Koepfer will face American Aleksandar Kovacevic.