Bautista Agut, Pella also advance
Three-time former champion Philipp Kohlschreiber recorded his third victory this season over a Top 15 opponent on Thursday by knocking out second-seeded Russian Karen Khachanov at the BMW Open by FWU.
Kohlschreiber improved to 35-11 in Munich, where he lifted the 2007, 2012 and 2016 titles, with a 7-6(6), 6-4 win over one hour and 50 minutes. The German recovered from 0/3 in the first set tie-break and saved one set point at 5/6 en route to his third straight win in four FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings.
Kohlschreiber, who beat World No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the BNP Paribas Open third round and then No. 13-ranked Fabio Fognini in the ASB Classic quarter-finals, will now prepare to face American Denis Kudla or last week’s Hungarian Open titlist, Matteo Berrettini of Italy, on Friday.
Roberto Bautista Agut is one win away from reaching the BMW Open by FWU semi-finals for the third time (2015, 2017) in the past five years after he beat German wild card Rudolf Molleker in Munich on Thursday. The fourth-seeded Spaniard, who picked up his ninth ATP Tour title at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open (d. Berdych) in the first week of 2019, recovered from 2-4 down in the first set and won 27 of 31 first-service points to defeat Molleker 6-4, 6-2 in 77 minutes.
He will next play seventh-seeded Argentine Guido Pella, the Brasil Open champion (d. Garin) in February, who worked his way past Taro Daniel of Japan 6-1, 6-7(7), 6-3 in two hours and 19 minutes for a place in his fourth ATP Tour quarter-final of the season. Pella led by a set and 5-3, but could not convert a match point at 6/5 in the tie-break before No. 72-ranked Daniel forced a decider. Bautista Agut beat Pella 6-3, 6-1, 6-1 in the 2017 Australian Open first round
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