Top seed Stan Wawrinka was handed a place in the quarter-finals of the Geneva Open when opponent Rogerio Dutra Silva was forced to retire yesterday
Stan Wawrinka
Top seed Stan Wawrinka was handed a place in the quarter-finals of the Geneva Open when opponent Rogerio Dutra Silva was forced to retire yesterday. Wawrinka, the World No. 3, was leading 5-2 in the opening set when the Brazilian quit due to an ankle injury.
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Wawrinka will now go on to play sixth seed Sam Querrey in the last eight after the American beat Croatian Franko Skugor 6-2, 6-3. Otherwise it was a bad day for the leading seeds as Albert Ramos-Vinolas and John Isner both suffered second-round defeats.
Meanwhile, Leander Paes and Scott Lipsky progressed to the semi-finals of after getting a walkover from their opponents Rogerio Dutra Silva and Paolo Lorenzi at the Lyon event. The Paes-Lipsky pair had defeated Tommy Robredo and David Marrero 6-7, (3), 7-6(3), 10-4 in the first round of the Euro 482,060 clay court event. The Indo-American team will next face top seeds Jean-Julien Rojer of The Netherlands and Romania’s Horia Tecau in the final four contest.
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