Alex de Minaur

ACAPULCO - Serbian tennis player Miomir Kecmanovic lost 6-2, 6-2 to Briton Jack Draper in the quarter-finals of the ATP tournament in Acapulco on Friday.

Draper, who won after just 83 minutes of play, will next face Australian Alex de Minaur, who beat Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.

The prize money in Acapulco is 2,206,080 dollars.

Three contenders for the men's singles title at the Australian Open, which starts on Sunday:

ALEXANDER ZVEREV (GERMANY)

Ranking: 6

PERTH - The Serbia national tennis team is out of the United Cup after Natalija Stevanovic lost 6-1, 6-1 to Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic in Perth on Wednesday.

Winning after only 65 minutes of play, Tomljanovic handed Australia a decisive 2-0 lead in the quarter-final tie against Serbia.

Stevanovic was a stand-in for Olga Danilovic.

PARIS  - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the world number one in men's tennis singles, is through to the Paris Masters third round after a 6-3, 6-2 win over world number 31 Tomas Martin Etcheverry of Argentina on Wednesday evening.

Djokovic, who won after an hour and 25 minutes of play, is now 2-0 head-to-head against Etcheverry.

Stefanos Tsitsipas reached the quarterfinals of the Barcelona Open by defeating Danis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday.

The second-seeded Greek saved both break points he faced against the Canadian to move to 18-5 for the season.

Djokovic has been complaining about problems with the back of his left hamstring since the tournament in Adelaide, and on Monday he won the quarterfinals convincingly.
Djokovic moved into a 13th Melbourne Park quarterfinal with a 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 win in just over two hours at Rod Laver Arena on Monday night, against the Australian Alex de Minaur.

Novak overpowered Australian Alex de Minaur 6:2, 6:1, 6:2.
The Serb needed only two hours to celebrate at "Rod Laver Arena".
Novak was simply unstoppable in this match, so at no time was there a problem with the left hamstring.
Now he faces his biggest challenge in Melbourne, fifth seed Andrei Rublev who will be recovering from his round of 16 match for a long time.

Djokovic convincingly outlasted Grigor Dimitrov 3-0 (7:6, 6:3, 6:4) in sets and showed that he is stronger than both the injury and the opponent, and this is his 24th consecutive victory in this tournament.
"I think the turning point, so to speak for both players, was right from the blocks, the very first game," Djokovic said in on court post-match interview.

Djokovic remains first with 12.113 points, while Daniil Medvedev follows with 10.053 points.
There was no change in the Top 10, so Rafael Nadal, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev, Andrei Rublev, Roger Federer, Matteo Berrettini and Roberto Bautista Agut are among the top ten.

Grigor Dimitrov will start his participation in the Masters tournament in Madrid with a match against the world №53 Lloyd Harris from South Africa.

This will be the first clash between the two, who have never met on the court so far.

For Dimitrov, this will be the first match after his loss to Rafael Nadal in the 1/8 finals of the Masters in Monte Carlo.