Romanian tennis player Gabi Adrian Boitan on Wednesday progressed to the quarterfinals of the Ion Tiriac Challenger tournament, prize money EUR 91,250, hosted by the Olimpia Sports Base in Brasov, after defeating Ecuadorian Alvaro Guillen Meza 6-2 6-1.
It took qualifier Boitan, 25, world number 372, just an hour and 17 minutes to get past the fourth seed, Guillen Meza, 22, world number 233, agerpres reports.
For his performance so far, the Romanian won EUR 2,635 and 16 ATP singles points.
In the quarterfinals, Boitan will face France's Luka Pavlovic, 25, world number 241, who defeated Filip Cristian Jianu, 23, world number 274, in the round of 16, 6-1 7-6 (7/4), in an hour and 26 minutes. Pavlovic managed no less than 15 aces in this match as well.
Jianu won EUR 1,535 and 6 ATP singles points.
In doubles, the only Romanians who made it past the first round are Alexandru Jecan/Bogdan Pavel.
Wednesday's results:
singles, second round
Luka Pavlovic (France) beat Filip Cristian Jianu 6-1 7-6 (7/4)
Gabi Adrian Boitan beat N.4 Alvaro Guillen Meza (Ecuador) 6-2 6-1
Frederico Ferreira Silva (Portugal) beat Edas Butvilas (Lithuania) 6-4 6-3
N.2 Juan Pablo Ficovich (Argentina) beat Oriol Roca Batalla (Spain) 7-6 (7/3) 6-2
doubles, first round
Vladislav Orlov (Ukraine)/Santiago Rodriguez Taverna (Argentina) beat George Goldhoff (USA)/Matias Soto (Chile) 6-3 4-6 10-8
N.4 Siddhant Banthia (India)/Aleksandar Donski (Bulgaria) beat S. D. Prajwal Dev/Nitin Kumar Sinha (India) 5-7 6-2 10-7
Andrew Paulson/Michael Vrbensky (Czech Republic) beat Victor Cornea (Romania)/Radu Albot (Moldova) 6-4 6-4
Alexandru Jecan/Bogdan Pavel beat Courtney John Lock (Zimbabwe)/Thijmen Loof (Netherlands) 7-5 6-2
Murkel Dellien (Bolivia)/Alvaro Guillen Meza (Ecuador) beat Luka Sanchez (France)/Szymon Walkow (Poland) 6-0 6-1
Patrik Kaukovalta/Patrik Niklas-Salminen (Finland) beat Gabriel Ghetu/Radu Turcanu 6-4 7-6 (7/1)
N.2 Alexander Merino (Peru)/Christoph Negritu (Germany) beat - Filip Jianu/Luca Preda 6-2 6-2.
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