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Miami Gardens, Florida: Jack Draper of Great Britain, the winner of Indian Wells, arrived on the ground with a blow on Saturday, surpassed by the 54th Jakub Mensik Open Mesik game in Miami.

Draper moved to the world ranking Top 10 for the first time in his career with his triumph over Holger Rune in the Indian Wells final last Sunday, after having defeated Carlos Alcaraz in the last four.

But the 19-year-old Mesik ascended to the occasion, winning two breaks to enjoy a 7-6 (7/2) 7-6 (7/3) victory.

“It was difficult, obviously I faced someone today who was playing incredible,” Draper said.

“It served 10 out of 10, I could read or look at their service at all. There were some things that could do better and obverously a great change on the surface of last week,” he said, and said he had fought to adapt to the fastest courses.

Rune was also caught, falling 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/5) to the American Reilly Opelka.

The planted Alexander Zverev entered the third round with a 6-2 6-4 victory over Jacob Fearnley in Great Britain.

The hopes of the Zverev title received an impulse on Friday when Carlos Alcaraz crashed with a surprise defeat against Belgian veteran David Goffin.

Without Jannik Sinner, while the Italian meets a doping prohibition, the leader of Zverev’s German, on paper, should be Novak Djokovic.

Zverev lost his inauguration in Indian Wells, but seemed strong in his debut on the South Florida Stadium court.

“In general, I am happy with my level today,” said Zverev, finalist of Miami 2018. “In Indian Wells it was very different, so I hope to be able to play continuously in this way and have a great week here.”

The 74 minutes tok 27 years to take care of business against Fearnley and said that his extra free time as a result of his surprise defeats the Greek track of Tallon had a valuable law.

“I had two weeks to practice and work again in my game and I did, I hope this is the first of many games for me,” he added.

There was a discomfort for the 13th American planted Ben Shelton, who was knocked out by the 20 -year -old, Coleman Wong of Hong Kong.

Wong, 128 in the world, opened its way to a 7-6 (7/3) 2-6, 7-6 (7/5) victory despite leaving an advantage of 5-2 in the final set.

His victory gives him a place in the third round of a 1000 Masters for the first time in his career.

“I always trust myself to play in these great stages … I spent a difficult time (during) the Covid Times. I did not play for a year and a half and I am very lucky that my team continues to support me. I am very happy and this is for you Hong Kong,” Wong said.

Joao Fonseca, 18 years old, delighted his great and strong group of followers with another energetic exhibition when he knocked out the seed 19 Ugo Humbert 6-4, 6-3 and reached the third round in a 1000 Masters for the first time.

In the female raffle, the sown Aryna Sabalenka moved to the fourth round after the Romanian opponent Elena-Gabriela Ruse had to retire after the Belarusian won the first 6-1 set.

Ruse received medical treatment in his right thigh, but could not continually.

The Third Coconut Seed Goteff progressed with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over a struggle Maria Sakkari, which has fallen into the ranking from the best to its current 51.

Naomi Osaka with some certain resistance of the American wild card Hailey Baptiste before emerging with a gain of 7-6 (8/6), 3-6, 6-4.

“Today was an emotional day for me,” said Osaka. “I am a little ashamed for how much I threw my racket, which is something I don’t like to be known.”

Our Jabeur or Tunisia also retired allowing Jasmine Paolini to go through, the Italian was 4-3 and a break in the first when Jabeur could no longer due to an injury to the left.