The best-filled Roberto Bautista Agut pushed the French qualifiers Gregoire Barrere aside 6-0 and 6-3 on Thursday to reach the quarter-finals of the Open Sud de France.
The Spanish veteran, aiming for a 10th career title, won 100 percent of his first serve points in the first set and broke Barrere’s serve three times.
Barrere scored the 2-2 when they swapped breaks early in the second set, but Bautista Agut broke him twice more, including in the final game.
The 32-year-old Spaniard will next face the sixth Frenchman Ugo Humbert.
No. 3 Dusan Lajovic and No. 4 Hubert Hurkacz were both eliminated by players who were not seeded.
Lajovic lost 7-6 (5), 7-5 against the Austrian David Novak and Hurkacz was beaten by the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 7-5, 6-2.
Next, Novak will play against German qualifier Peter Gojowczyk, who survived 29 aces from Jiri Vesely and had 17 aces of his own in a 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-3 win.
Davidovich Fokina meets the unseeded Belarusian Egor Gerasimov, who defeated Aljaz Bedene 6: 4, 7: 6 (4).
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