HOUSTON, November 16, 2019

No. 4 seed Marcos Giron and the tournament’s No. 8 Mitchell Krueger will compete for a spot in Sunday’s final of the Oracle Challenger Series Houston. On a sunny and mild Friday at the George R. Brown Tennis Center, Giron battled through both of his matches, needing three sets to defeat Jenson Brooksby from the United States 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in the third round, as well as Jason Jung of Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals, 6-1, 2-6, 6-2.

Meanwhile, his opponent Krueger captured straight set victories over Pedja Krstin from Serbia 7-6(4), 6-4 and fellow US-American Michael Redlicki 6-4, 6-4. The second semi-final will feature 40-year-old veteran and all-time ATP Tour ace leader Ivo Karlovic of Croatia against Australian Christopher O’Connell, who advanced to the stage of the final four when US-American Michael Mmoh retired from their quarterfinal match after only five games.

“It would top off my year to win a title here,” O’Connell said, quoted by the Oracle Challenger Series website. “I’ve surprised myself this season honestly. For now, I’m focusing on the semis, but just two more matches…hopefully I can do it.”

And now for the men’s SF matchups!

🇭🇷 Ivo Karlovic v. 🇦🇺 Christopher O’Connell
🇺🇸 Marcos Giron v. 🇺🇸 Mitchell Krueger #RoadtoIndianWells pic.twitter.com/2YLrFIaEu7

— Oracle Challenger Series (@OracleChallngrs) November 16, 2019

RESULTS – NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals
Irina Falconi (USA) d [2] Taylor Townsend (USA) 75 61
[3] Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) d [6] Catherine Mcnally (USA) 75 46 62
[7] Stefanie Voegele (SUI) d [4] Katarina Zavatska (UKR) 75 61
[WC] CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) d [10] Mandy Minella (LUX) 61 64

Women’s Singles – Third Round
[2] Taylor Townsend (USA) d [14] Caroline Dolehide (USA) 57 62 63
[3] Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) d [Q] CiCi Bellis (USA) 64 64
[4] Katarina Zavatska (UKR) d [13] Ann Li (USA) 63 63
[6] Catherine Mcnally (USA) d Dalma Galfi (HUN) 60 26 63
[7] Stefanie Voegele (SUI) d [11] Usue Arconada (USA) 61 62
[10] Mandy Minella (LUX) d Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 21 Retired
[WC] CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) d Anhelina Kalinina (UKR) 63 63
Irina Falconi (USA) d [WC] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 61 63

Women’s Doubles – Quarterfinals
[1] Sharon Fichman (CAN) / Ena Shibahara (JPN) d [PR] Irina Falconi (USA) / Catherine Mcnally (USA) 64 63
[2] Ellen Perez (AUS) / Luisa Stefani (BRA) d Usue Arconada (USA) / Caroline Dolehide (USA) 75 64
Beatrice Gumulya (INA) / Jessy Rompies (INA) d [4] Fanny Stollar (HUN) / Taylor Townsend (USA) walkover
Hayley Carter (USA) / Jamie Loeb (USA) d Jacqueline Cako (USA) / Olga Danilovic (SRB) 75 64

Men’s Singles – Quarterfinals
[3] Ivo Karlovic (CRO) d [Q] Alexis Galarneau (CAN) 76(3) 76(7)
[4] Marcos Giron (USA) d [5] Jason Jung (TPE) 61 26 62
[6] Christopher O’Connell (AUS) d [14] Michael Mmoh (USA) 50 Retired
[8] Mitchell Krueger (USA) d [15] Michael Redlicki (USA) 64 64

Men’s Singles – Third Round
[15] Michael Redlicki (USA) d [1] Tennys Sandgren (USA) 67(5) 64 64
[14] Michael Mmoh (USA) d [2] Bradley Klahn (USA) 57 76(5) 76(5)
[3] Ivo Karlovic (CRO) d [16] Sekou Bangoura (USA) 76(5) 26 64
[4] Marcos Giron (USA) d [13] Jenson Brooksby (USA) 62 46 63
[5] Jason Jung (TPE) d [9] Alexey Vatutin (RUS) 75 62
[6] Christopher O’Connell (AUS) d [11] Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP) 76(3) 64
[8] Mitchell Krueger (USA) d [12] Pedja Krstin (SRB) 76(4) 64
[Q] Alexis Galarneau (CAN) d Gonzalo Escobar (ECU) 63 63

Men’s Doubles – Quarterfinals
[1] Jonathan Erlich (ISR) / Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) d N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) 62 76(4)
[2] Luke Bambridge (GBR) / Nathaniel Lammons (USA) d [PR] Nathan Pasha (USA) / Max Schnur (USA) 61 64
[3] Ariel Behar (URU) / Gonzalo Escobar (ECU) d [WC] Sekou Bangoura (USA) / Govind Nanda (USA) 75 63
[PR] Treat Huey (PHI) / Sem Verbeek (NED) d [4] Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) / Fernando Romboli (BRA) 63 61