The third day of the Sparkasse Challenger Val Gardena Südtirol ended with a victory by Borna Gojo. The 24-year-old Croatian from Split defeated Yannick Hanfmann, who had ended Andreas Seppi's career 24 hours earlier. Gojo decided the round of 16 on Wednesday evening in Ortisei with 7:6 (3), 6:2. On Friday in the quarter-finals he will meet Giulio Zeppieri. After an even first set, Gojo won the tiebreak with four points in a row 7:3. In the second set, he immediately broke for 1:0, fended off four break points of the German and took the serve from Hanfmann for 5:2. After 89 minutes, he converted the first match point.
