ATP roundup: Frances Tiafoe gets past Daniel Evans in Almaty

No. 1 seed Frances Tiafoe smashed 21 aces without a double fault to defeat British qualifier Daniel Evans 6-7 (10), 7-6 (4), 6-3 in two hours and 39 minutes in the second round of the Almaty Open in Kazakhstan on Thursday.

The American charged back from a 4-1 deficit in the first-set tiebreaker and served for set point twice, but Evans pushed him aside and won the set on his fourth attempt. The second set played out in a similar way until Tiafoe scored the final four points of the tiebreaker. From there, Tiafoe finally broke Evans' serve twice in a 4-0 start to the third set.

Tiafoe's quarterfinal opponent will be Australian Aleksandar Vukic, who knocked out eighth seed Adrian Mannarino of France 7-6 (4), 6-3.

No. 3 seed Karen Khachanov of Russia snuck past Finland's Otto Virtanen 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3). Kazakh wild card Beibit Zhukayev also moved on when his second-round opponent, Czech fifth seed Tomas Machac, retired down 3-1 in the first set of their match.

BNP Paribas Nordic Open

No. 1 seed Andrey Rublev of Russia cruised to a 6-4, 6-1 win over Frenchman Alexandre Muller in 64 minutes in the second round in Stockholm.

Rublev is set for a showdown with Stan Wawrinka, the 39-year-old Swiss wild card who battled past Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. It marked Wawrinka's first back-to-back tour-level wins of the year and pushed him a step closer to his first ATP Tour title since 2017.

No. 3 seed Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria beat France's Quentin Halys 7-6 (1), 6-3, and Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic upset fifth seed Nicolas Jarry of Chile 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (2).

European Open

Greek second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas survived a 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-5 win over Brazilian qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild to move on to the quarterfinals in