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Spanish Carlo Alkaraz defeats Marin Chilick in Croatia to move to the last 16 of the Open Qatar.
The most replaced Carlos Alcaraz has overcome Croatian veteran Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-4 to reach the 16 round of Qatar open.
36-year-old Chilik, the 2014 open-opened champion, who fell to number 192 in the ranking, played his first match of the season after recovering from a long-term knee injury.
The Croatians led 4-3 and 0-40 Alcaz's service in the second set on Friday, but the Spanish four-time main winner managed to recover and then broke in the next game.
“I am just very happy that at that moment I was calm – breathing, going through my combinations, making good points,” said Alkara. “That's why I was able to win in two sets.”
Alkaraz will play either China Gian Jazene or in Italy Luka Nardi afterwards.
Earlier, Grigor in the seventh seed Dimitrov lost 6-4, 6-4 to Jiri Leheka.
Also on Monday, British Jack Draper defeated Alexey Alexei Popin 6-2, 7-6 (4) to organize a meeting with another Australian, Christopher O'Connell.
Several other top players will play their first matches on Tuesday.
The second seed Alex de Prepa will face Roman Safilin. Novak Djokovic, who had to get out of his semi -finals to Australia outdoors with a knee injury, will take over Mateo Beretini.
Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and Stefano Tsitsipas will also play on Tuesday.
