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Lars Hamer

Hong Kong No 1 Coleman Wong Chak-lam suffered a straight-sets loss to Frenchman Ugo Humbert in the second round of the Cincinnati Open on Saturday.
The two fought out a close match, with each player holding serve at 40-30 four times in the first set.
Ranked No 25 in the world, Humbert got the first set’s decisive break point in the fourth game, again winning after leading 40-30.
Humbert immediately broke Wong again in the first game of the second set, but the world No 177 showed spirit, holding two games to love before failing to convert a break point that would have brought the match level at 4-4.
The Frenchman completed a 6-3, 6-4 victory.
Seven-time ATP Tour title winner Humbert will play the United States’ Frances Tiafoe, the tournament’s No 10 seed, in the next round.

Wong had battled through two qualifying matches and won his first-round tie against Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-3, 6-2 in his debut at the ATP Masters 1000 event.
In the women’s draw, mainland China’s Yuan Yue knocked out Russian Diana Shnaider 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to set up a third-round tie against Belgian Sorana Cirstea.
Yuan qualified for the tournament proper as a “lucky loser” after suffering a 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 defeat in her second qualifying match to American Clervie Ngounoue.
Having been among the highest-ranked players eliminated in the qualifying rounds, she was brought back into the main draw after withdrawals.
Yuan said she had trained at 6am on Saturday, just hours before she was told she would face Spain’s Cristina Busca in the first round, under the assumption she would not be called into the tournament proper.
“I had a day off after losing in qualifying,” Yuan said. “I was the third-choice lucky loser and I didn’t think anyone had retired the day before, so I resumed normal training.
“Then, the umpire sent a message asking me to go to their room and told me I would definitely be able to play.
“I was really happy at that moment, because I think the last match of the qualifying rounds was OK, but there were some opportunities and some key points that were not grasped.
“When I got the news I would be playing, I went to the players’ lounge and slept on the sofa for a long time,” she said. “Because I was the fifth match, I didn’t want to return to the hotel.”
China’s Wang Xinyu beat Colombian Emiliana Arango 7-6, 6-3 to progress to the third round, where she will face this year’s French Open champion, Coco Gauff.


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Wong meets his match in France’s Ugo Humbert, but Yuan Yue makes most of last-minute reprieve


Wong meets his match in France’s Ugo Humbert, but Yuan Yue makes most of last-minute reprieve.


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