British qualifier Liam Broady stuns Adrian Mannarino at St Petersburg Open
ByPA Sport
Published 20/09/2017 at 20:34 GMT
Fourth seed Adrian Mannarino was sent crashing out of the St Petersburg Open by British qualifier Liam Broady.
Great Britain's Liam Broady, pictured, stunned Adrian Mannarino
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Frenchman Mannarino, ranked 211 places higher than his opponent, looked on course for the quarter-finals when he won the first set 6-2 and broke early in the second.
But Broady, whose first-round victory over Latvian Ernests Gulbis was his first ever win in the main draw of an ATP World Tour tournament, broke straight back.
The 23-year-old then conceded just one more game as he recorded a memorable 2-6 6-4 6-0 success.
Broady will face Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, who beat Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 6-4 7-6 (7/4), in the last eight.
At the Moselle Open in Metz, home favourite Nicolas Mahut beat Germany's Dustin Brown 6-1 7-6 (7/4).
However, three other Frenchmen - Pierre-Hugues Herbert, Paul-Henri Mathieu and Gilles Simon - tumbled out to Mischa Zverev, Henri Laaksonen and Peter Gojowczyk respectively.
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