Winston-Salem Open: India’s Prajnesh Gunneswaran Out in Round 2

Paire's success makes way for a third-round confrontation with individual Frenchman Ugo Humbert, who was a 3 6-3 6-2 champ over American Bjorn Fratangelo at the ATP 250 occasion.
Winston-Salem Open: India’s Prajnesh Gunneswaran Out in Round 2

Top seeds Benoit Paire and Denis Shapovalov advanced into the third round of the Winston-Salem Open with straight-set successes on the North Carolina hardcourt on Tuesday.

Top-seeded Paire was efficient in his 6-3 7-5 expulsion of Prajnesh Gunneswaran, pounding his 14 aces on match point to vindicate his loss to the 29-year-old at Indian Wells in March.

Paire's success makes way for a third-round confrontation with individual Frenchman Ugo Humbert, who was a 3 6-3 6-2 champ over American Bjorn Fratangelo at the ATP 250 occasion.

Second seed Shapovalov looked sharp in transit to 6-2 6-4 triumph over American Tennys Sandgren, who had vanquished three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray the prior night.

Next up for hard-hitting Canadian Shapovalov is a gathering with Serbian adolescent Miomir Kecmanovic in the round of 16 on Wednesday.

Lee Duck-hee, who on Monday turned into the first hard of hearing player to win a match in the first draw of an ATP occasion, tumbled to rising Polish Hubert Hurkacz 4 6-0 6-3.

Russian Andrey Rublev, new of his amazing success over Roger Federer at the Cincinnati Masters, was compelled to play two matches on Tuesday because of a downpour on Monday however won both and will meet enormous serving American Sam Querrey.

Italian Lorenzo Sonego, Serbian Filip Krajinovic, Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez and young Americans Frances Tiafoe and Steve Johnson were among those who also booked their tickets to the third round on Tuesday

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