Top Seeds Reach Bermuda Quarter-Finals

Top seed Blaise Bicknell and second seed Keshav Chopra advanced to the quarter-finals of the ITF M15 Pembroke tournament at the WER Joell Tennis Stadium on Thursday [October 29], with all eight seeded players reaching the last eight.

Jamaica’s Bicknell defeated American Matisse Farzam 7-6, 6-3, while American Chopra dropped just one game in a 6-0, 6-1 victory over compatriot and qualifier Kian Vakili.

Third seed Matt Kuhar won his all-American encounter with Carel Ngounoue 6-2, 6-4.

Fifth-seeded American Noah Schachter defeated qualifier Tyler Mercier 6-3, 7-6, while Poland’s sixth seed Kacper Szymkowiak beat Barbados’ Darian King 6-3, 6-4.

Seventh seed Jacob Brumm, of the United States, overcame Guatemala’s Juan Sebastian Dominguez Collado 6-0, 7-6. France’s eighth seed Paul Colin defeated American Nathan Cox 6-4, 6-1.

Canadian fourth seed Alvin Nicholas Tudorica completed the quarter-final line-up after receiving a walkover against American qualifier Brendan McDonald.

The quarter-final pairings are Bicknell against Schachter, Tudorica against Colin, Brumm against Kuhar, and Szymkowiak against Chopra.