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Jack Draper advanced to the second round of Qatar Open with a strong performance with a victory of 6-2 7-6 (7-4) against Alexei Popyrin.
The eighth seed – playing for the first time after retirement injured against Carlos Alcaraz on the Australian Open in January – needed only 27 minutes to keep the first set in Dubai to cope with the first administration of the British.
The second set was much less direct for Draper, because Popyrin saved the break point to maintain serving.
Draper, who debuted in Doha, won a tie to organize the last 16. A meeting with the Australian qualifier Christopher O’Connel.
At the beginning of Monday Top Seed Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the second round with a victory of 6-4 6-4 against Marin Cilic.
Former US Open Cilec champion – first spoke from November due to failure from his knee – triggered three points of the turn late in the second set, which would put it on 5-3.
Alcaraz then broke and secured a place in the last 16, where he will face either Zhang Zhizhen or Luca Nardi.
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