Draper & Sinner down Bublik & Shelton, reach Montreal QFs

In a second-round showdown between four Top 30 singles players in the PIF ATP Rankings, Jack Draper and Jannik Sinner defeated Alexander Bublik and Ben Shelton 7-6(2), 6-1 at the Omnium Banque National présenté par Rogers.

The British-Italian duo won 81 per cent of their serves and saved all three break points they faced, according to Infosys ATP Stats, to reach the quarter-finals. They will next face second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden or 14th seeds Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski.

Bublik and Shelton were competing just hours after playing each other in a first-round singles match, won by the American.

As part of the ATP doubles trial, teams of singles players are pitted against doubles specialist teams in the first round and Wednesday’s action featured a handful of such matches, with the results evenly split.

Miomir Kecmanovic and Casper Ruud ousted the seventh-seeded Argentine duo Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni 7-6(4), 6-3.

Miomir Kecmanovic and Casper Ruud in Montreal. Credit: Peter Staples/ATP Tour

Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Alejandro Tabilo ended the seven-match winning streak of 13th seeds Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow with a 1-6, 6-4, 10-4 victory. The American pair arrived in Montreal after back-to-back titles in Atlanta and Washington.

Nys and Zielinski and 15th seeds Lloyd Glasspool and Nikola Mektic scored wins for the doubles specialists. The Monegasque-Polish duo overcame Arthur Fils and Nicolas Jarry 4-6, 6-3, 10-5 while Glasspool and Mektic raced past Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev 6-3, 6-4.

Nikola Mektic and Lloyd Glasspool advance in straight sets. Credit: Peter Staples/ATP Tour

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