Day 3 at Delray Beach brought 4 singles matches of the second round. With Tomic getting upset in the first round, there were no players with big names to draw the crowds for the day session. However, what the matches lacked in famous names, they made up for with drama and entertaining play.
The first match on Stadium was played between the 6th seed Steve Johnson and the German veteran Benjamin Becker. The match was looking good for the American, leading 7-5, 4-0. Both players were serving well in the first set, but then Johnson managed to run away with the second to 4-0. However Becker was not giving up, took the 2 breaks back and then when things got to a tiebreak he took it easily 7-1. Becker was serving really well in the third set, and when he got the break he didn’t let it go and ended up winning the match
Benjamin Becker – (6) Steve Johnson 5-7 7-6(1) 6-3
Adrian Mannarino and Tatsuma Ito was the only singles match played on the outer court today. Mannarino had hit big highs and lows and serve, ending with the balance of 12 aces and 11 doubles faults. Ito was struggling more, with only 3 aces to match the 9 double faults. Despite there being two tiebreaks in the match, there were also 10 breaks of serve. This marathon of a match lasted over 2 hours and 45 
minutes, being the longest that day, but it had lots of competition with 2 other matches lasting over 2 hours.
(8) Adrian Mannarino – Tatsuma Ito 7-6(6) 6-7(4) 6-3
The final day match on stadium had a face-off between the Ukranian Illya Marchenko and Rajeev Ram, the defeater of Bernard Tomic in his previous round. Both players have similar games, Ram has a bit better volleys and is a more aggressive player. The American really took the match away from his opponent, and was leading 6-2 5-3. Marchenko fought back and won 4 straight games to take the set, without having to save a single match point. Ram took Marchenko’s serve in the first game and then came the longest game I have seen in a while, and which is one of the reasons there were altogether 20 break points in the match. After 10 deuces, Ram managed to hold his serve in the end, which turned out to be crucial as no more breaks came in the match.
Rajeev Ram – Illya Marchenko 6-2 5-7 6-4
