Third seed Dominic Thiem ended a two-match losing streak against Argentina's Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday to reach the third round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell.
The 25-year-old Austrian broke Schwartzman six times as the Argentine struggled with his serve, winning just over half of his first-serve points and hitting seven double faults.
Thiem made the 2017 Barcelona final (l. to Nadal) and will next meet home favourite Jaume Munar, who made the semi-finals of the 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals last November.
Munar ousted #NextGenATP American Frances Tiafoe, the 14th seed, 6-4, 6-3 to improve his FedEx ATP Head2Head advantage against Tiafoe to 2-0, which also includes his win at the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan.
To start his clay-court season, the 21-year-old Munar upset No. 3 Alexander Zverev en route to the quarter-finals of the Grand Prix Hassan II in Marrakech. Last week, the Spaniard made the second round (l. to Coric) of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.
German Jan-Lennard Struff upset 10th seed David Goffin of Belgium 7-6(6), 6-3 and will meet the winner between fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas and Hungarian Marton Fucsovicsreadfullarticle
