Nuno Borges qualified for the quarter-finals of the Hong Kong tournament, beating Marin Cilic in straight sets.
The best Portuguese in the ATP rankings (47th) started to get the better of a balanced first set that ended with a decisive break of service that allowed him to win 7-5.
In the second set, Borges once again outperformed the 2014 US Open champion and prevailed 6-3, closing the match after 1:21 hours.
In the quarter-finals, the Mayan tennis player will face the winner of the match between the tournament’s third seed and 16th in the world, the 28-year-old Russian Andrey Rublev, and the 26-year-old Chinese Wu Yibing, number 179 in the hierarchy who came from qualifying.
