Highly-Rated Croat: Unforced Errors and Baseline Slugfest

highly-rated croat: The South Korean capitalized on Coric's sluggish play to win the first set, as the world No.48 struggled to find his range, according to Hamilton Spectator. The second set was more of a contest as the two players traded big forehands and backhands. Chung continued his fine form from the qualifying tournament and proved too strong for the highly-rated Croat in a baseline slugfest at the SDAT Nungambakkam stadium. Chung held for 6-5 with a few powerful shots, before Coric surrendered his serve meekly by making unforced errors in the next game, with the match ending when he sent a backhand wide. The 99th-ranked Medvedev's booming serves and powerful groundstrokes left little doubt about the result between two players making their first appearances at the event. Chung now faces Israel's Dudi Sela, who kept Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia on the run with pinpoint ground strokes to post a comfortable 6-2, 6-2 win In other matches, Daniil Medvedev beat Thiago Monteiro of Brazil 6-3, 6-3 and Belgian Steve Darcis quelled the challenge of Croatian qualifier Nikola Mektic 6-2, 6-3 to face third-seeded Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the second round. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.