Top seed Adrian Mannarino managed to edge former Wimbledon semi-finalist Jerzy Janowicz in the second round of the Quimper Challenger. The Frenchman moved into the quarter-finals with a 64 36 64 win.
Mannarino and Janowicz were very secure on serve save for the single breaks in the first and second sets. Janowicz got out of trouble once in the second set, saving two break points as Mannarino pressed. He quickly went down love-forty in the final game, and succumbed to hand Mannarino the win.
In other results qualifier Gleb Sakharov scored the best win of his career, as he knocked out Julien Benneteau in three sets. Benneteau had looked on course for a routine when he won the first set, but Sakharov grew into the match, and the Uzbekistan-born Frenchman took the second set before taking the match in the third set tiebreak.
Third seed Sergiy Stakhovsky nearly went the same way as Benneteau as he struggled past Enrique Lopez-Perez 46 75 63. The Ukrainian struggled through his first service games, before being broken towards the end of the first set. Stakhovsky then struck late in the second, breaking as Lopez-Perez failed to take the match to a tiebreak. Stakhovsky then stole an early break in the decider and cruised through the rest of the match.
Andrey Rublev had a mighty struggle against qualifier Hugo Nys, but the defending champion eventually pulled through 64 67 63.
In an all French affair Tristan Lamasine demolished his countryman Mathias Bourgue 62 61 in under an hour. Bourgue struggled throughout and quickly succumbed with errors flowing in particular from the forehand side.
Quarter-final draw:
Adrian Mannarino vs Gleb Sakharov
Quentin Halys vs Aslan Karatsev
Peter Gojocwcyzk vs Sergiy Stakhovsky
Andrey Rublev vs Tristan Lamasine
