The top-seeded Belgian double – Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen left early the Sofia Open 2023 and ended their dream for a third season ATP title. Belgians, who are currently world #12, lost to Ariel Behar form Uruguay and Adam Pavlasek from Czechia 6:7(9), 1:6.
Behar/Pvlasek’s next opponents are experienced Simone Bolelli (Italy) and Matwe Middelkoop (Netherlands).
Yanaki Milev and Piotr Nestorov became the only Bulgarians with a win at the local ATP250 event. The young prodigies downed in only an hour Spaniards Inigo Cervantes and David Vega Hernandes 6:3, 6:4.
Americans Evan King and Reese Salder reached quarterfinals too defeating Francisco Cabral (Portugal) and Henry Patten (Great Britain) 7:6 (4), 4:6, 10-7.
The Thursday Sofia Open 2023’s schedule includes three doubles matches:
ORDER OF PLAY – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2023
CENTER COURT start 11:00
[3] J. Cash (GBR) / N. Mektic (CRO) vs E. King (USA) / R. Stalder (USA)
Not Before 13:00
[3] J. Struff (GER) vs F. Marozsan (HUN)
[1] L. Musetti (ITA) or J. Draper (GBR) vs [WC] C. Ilkel (TUR) or [6] M. Purcell (AUS)
Not Before 18:00
[7] S. Ofner (AUT) vs [2] A. Mannarino (FRA)
[8] M. Fucsovics (HUN) or J. Rodionov (AUT) vs P. Kotov or [4] S. Baez (ARG)
COURT 1 start 13:00
Behar (URU) / A. Pavlasek (CZE) vs S. Bolelli (ITA) / M. Middelkoop (NED)
Not Before 15:00
[WC] Y. Milev (BUL) / P. Nesterov (BUL) vs G. Escobar (ECU) / A. Nedovyesov (KAZ) or [4] A. Erler (AUT) / L. Miedler (AUT)
Aafter suitable rest – A. Harris (AUS) / R. Hijikata (AUS) or M. Purcell (AUS) / J. Smith (AUS) vs A. Golubev (KAZ) / D. Molchanov (UKR)
