Sebastian Korda’s love affair with the Miami Open presented by Itau continued in fashion Thursday, with the American dispatching Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-1, 6-1 to succeed in the second spherical.
The 21-year-old loved a run to the quarter-finals on his debut on the ATP Masters 1000 occasion final yr when he was ranked No. 87 within the ATP Rankings. Now at a career-high No. 38, Korda set the wheels in movement for one more sturdy week with a dominant one-hour, 11-minute win over Spaniard Davidovich Fokina.
“I performed some lengthy factors. It was fairly heat on the market so I’m tremendous glad to get by,” Korda mentioned in his on-court interview. “I made him run round a bit. I feel I did a superb job on that immediately and am tremendous proud of the way in which I performed.”
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The American, who eradicated seeds Fabio Fognini, Aslan Karatsev and Diego Schwartzman in Miami in 2021, fired the ball by the court docket with nice energy and precision in his first ATP Head2Head assembly towards the World No. 43.
“I made the quarter-finals final yr and ever since I used to be slightly child I got here to this match,” Korda added. “Now to have the ability to be right here and compete myself, I feel little Sebi could be very glad.”
Along with his victory, Korda will subsequent play thirty second seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas in what would be the first conflict between the pair.
Korda arrives in Miami on the again of two promising performances on the BNP Paribas Open, the place he defeated Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis earlier than falling agonisingly brief towards World No. 3 Rafael Nadal in three units.
The 2021 Intesa Sanpaolo Next Gen ATP Finals runner up is competing in his sixth tour-level occasion of the yr in Florida, together with his finest outcome this season a run to the final eight on residence soil in Delray Seaside final month.
Davidovich Fokina was making his Miami debut and is certainly one of 9 Spaniards within the singles discipline. The 22-year-old superior to the quarter-finals in Doha final month.
