Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo is out of the Almaty Open tennis match after dropping 7-6 (3), 6-7 (3), 6-4 to Australian qualifier James Duckworth in second-round motion Wednesday in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Duckworth overcame 22 aces from fourth seed Diallo and didn’t face a break level within the match that lasted simply over two and a half hours.
Diallo was correct on 82 per cent of his first serves and received 74 per cent of his first service factors, however he confronted eight break factors. Whereas he fended off seven of them, Duckworth scored an important break to go up 4-3 within the third set.
Duckworth will face third seed Flavio Cobolli of Italy within the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 occasion.
It was the primary ATP main-draw assembly between the gamers. Diallo defeated Duckworth in qualifying on the 2022 Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal.
Diallo, ranked thirty fifth on the earth, noticed his document drop to 28-22 on the season.
Later Wednesday, third seed Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., confronted Leo Borg, the son of tennis legend Bjorn Borg, within the second spherical of the ATP 250 Stockholm Open.
Fourth-seed Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., faces Hungary’s Dalma Galfi in second-round motion on the Japan Ladies’s Open on Thursday (Wednesday night time ET) in Osaka.
