Home Favourites Borges/Cabral Advance To Estoril Doubles QFs

Home favourites Nuno Borges and Francisco Cabral made a winning start at the Millennium Estoril Open on Wednesday. The only all-Portuguese pairing in the ATP 250 draw earned a 6-3, 7-6(3) victory against Romain Arneodo and Sam Weissborn, not facing a break point as they progessed to the quarter-finals.

Borges/Cabral will next meet Robin Haase and Philipp Oswald, who upset top seeds Hugo Nys and Andreas Mies 7-6(4), 6-1. The Dutch/Austrian team saved both points against them in the win.

Second seeds John Peers and Marcelo Melo were also knocked out on Wednesday, as Diego Hidalgo and Cristian Rodriguez scored an upset of their own with a 7-6(5), 6-7(7), 10-6 result.

Cressy/Olivetti Advance In Marrakech
Just one doubles match was completed on a rainy Wednesday at the Grand Prix Hassan II. Before play was suspended for the day, fifth seeds Maxime Cressy and Albano Olivetti defeated Petros Tsitsipas and Hendrix Jebens 6-3, 7-6(5) to advance to the quarter-finals.

In the day’s only other doubles match to take the court, Marcelo Demoliner and Andrea Vavassori led fourth-seeded Frenchmen Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin 6-4, 5-5 when play was stopped.

No doubles matches were contested on Wednesday at Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship in Houston.