Chardy Sprints Through In Umag

Third seed Jeremy Chardy was in dominant form on Wednesday at the Konzum Croatia Open Umag, needing just 43 minutes to advance to the quarter-finals over qualifier Nikola Cacic.

Chardy dropped just six points in the second set and only lost four points on serve during the match. Next up for him is Carlos Berlocq, who won his second-round via retirement over Jiri Vesely, 7-5, 3-0.

Fourth seed Fabio Fognini notched a 6-4, 6-1 win over Hamburg semi-finalist Renzo Olivo. The Italian saved five of the six break points he faced to set a quarter-final clash with Damir Dzumhur, who survived another three-set match in Umag by defeating Thomas Fabbiano, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.

Doubles

The upset of the day went to Martin Klizan/David Marrero, who knocked out top seeds Colin Fleming/Mariusz Fyrstenberg, 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 to reach the quarter-finals. They next face Tomislav Draganja/Nino Serdarusic.

Fourth seeds Nikola Mektic/Antonio Sancic beat Teymuraz Gabashvili/Leander Paes 6-0, 6-2 in 46 minutes to reach the last eight, where they will challenge Carlos Berlocq/Pablo Cuevas. The Argentine/Uruguayan tandem defeated Lukas Dlouhy/Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-5, 6-4.

Gastao Elias/Fabricio Neis topped Pablo Carreno Busta/Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-1, 6-3. They next face second seeds Nicholas Monroe/Artem Sitak.

Thomas Fabbiano/Franko Skugor ousted third seeds Andrej Martin/Hans Podlipnik-Castillo 2-6, 6-4, 10-5 for a quarter-final against Aljaz Bedene/Damir Dzumhur, 6-4, 6-1 winners over Riccardo Ghedin/Alessandro Motti.