Last Updated on January 2, 2019
Italian tennis player Cecchinato without a fight was in the quarter finals of the competition in Doha. The Italian rival in the second round match, Argentinean Guido Pella, withdrew from the tournament due to back pain. In the match for reaching the semifinal of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open tournament, Cecchinato will play against Serb Dusan Layovic, who won the Lithuanian Richardas Berankis – 7/6 (4), 0/6, 7/5.