The two tennis players, who are only four places apart in the top 100 of the ranking, completed their second match on Saturday due to a big time slip after persistent rains. And Macháč, after the previous victory twice 6:4 over home Marcos Giron, did not manage the duel. He only withstood the nine-year-old German for 65 minutes after losing serve twice in each set.
Hanfmann, who surprisingly knocked out the second-seeded Tommy Paul from the USA in the first match on Saturday (7:6, 6:2), helped himself to seven aces in the match between two players from the qualification. He let Macháče go for a single break point, which he parried at 1:3 in the first set.
| Houston men’s tournament (clay, $718,245 endowment): |
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| Singles – 2nd round: |
| MACHÁČ (CZE) – Giron (7-USA) 6:4, 6:4 |
| Tiafoe (1-USA) – Johnson (USA) 6:2, 6:4 |
| Hanfmann (Germany) – Paul (2-USA) 7:6 (8:6), 6:2 |
| Brewer (Niz.) – Isner (4-USA) 6:4, 7:6 (7:4) |
| Wolf (5-USA) – Usually (USA) 6:4, 6:1 |
| Kubler (6-Austr.) – Galán (Kol.) 6:4, 6:2 |
| Etcheverry (8-Arg.) – Purcell (Austr.) 7:6 (7:5), 6:1 |
| Garín (Arg.) – Bergs (Belg.) 7:6 (7:4), 7:6 (7:1). |
| Singles – Quarter Finals: |
| Hanfmann (Germany) – MACHÁČ (CZ) 6:2, 6:1 |
| Tiafoe (1-USA) – Kubler (6-Aust.) 6:4, 6:4 |
| Brouwer (Niz.) – Wolf (5-USA) 6:3, 6:4 |
| Etcheverry (8-Arg.) – Garin (Arg.) 6:1, 6:7 (2:7), 6:3 |
