Carlos Alcaraz, Spain's top-seeded tennis star, continued his dominance at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell on Thursday with a decisive 6-2, 6-4 victory over Serbia's Laslo Djere. The 2022 and 2023 champion needed just 71 minutes to secure his quarterfinal spot, where he will face Australia's Alex De Minaur, fresh off a commanding 6-1, 6-2 win against Britain's Jacob Fearnley.
In other Barcelona matches, Russia's Karen Khachanov edged past Spain's Jaume Munar 7-5, 6-4. He now prepares to meet Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who stunned No. 4 seed Andrey Rublev of Russia in a tense 7-5, 6-4 upset.
Meanwhile, at the BMW Open in Munich, Belgium's David Goffin staged a remarkable comeback against Argentina's Mariano Navone, turning the tide from a 0-6 first-set loss to a 7-5, 6-1 triumph. Goffin's resilience sets up a quarterfinal clash with fifth-seeded Francisco Cerundulo of Argentina, who defeated Kazakhstan's Alexander Shevchenko 6-3, 6-2.
The Munich tournament also saw Belgium's Zizou Bergs and Hungary's Fabian Marozsan advance. Bergs dominated 17-year-old German wildcard Diego Dedura-Palomero 6-1, 6-1, while Marozsan ousted fourth-seeded Frenchman Ugo Humbert 6-4, 6-4.
