Jack Draper has improved to the second one spherical of the Qatar Open with a powerful efficiency in a 6-2 7-6 (7-4) victory towards Alexei Popyrin.
The 8th seed – enjoying for the primary time since retiring injured towards Carlos Alcaraz on the Australian Open in January – wanted handiest 27 mins to take the primary set in Dubai with Popyrin not able to deal with the Briton’s first serves.
The second one set used to be some distance much less simple for Draper as Popyrin stored a wreck level to stay with serve.
Draper, making his debut in Doha, received the tie-break to arrange a last-16 assembly with Australian qualifier Christopher O’Connell.
Previous on Monday best seed Carlos Alcaraz improved to the second one spherical with a 6-4 6-4 victory towards Marin Cilic.
Former US Open champion Cilic – making his first look since November on account of a knee-injury setback – spurned 3 wreck issues past due in the second one set that will have put him 5-3 up.
Alcaraz then broke serve and secured a spot within the final 16, the place he’ll face both Zhang Zhizhen or Luca Nardi.
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