Fognini reaches Brazil Open quarter-finals

Second-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy beat Joao Domingues of Portugal 7-5 6-1 on Wednesday to reach the Brazil Open quarter-finals.

Fognini will face Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, a 7-6 (7-3) 4-6 6-4 winner over eighth-seeded Federico Delbonis of Argentina.

Third-seeded defending champion Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and fifth-seeded Leonardo Mayer of Argentina set up another quarter-final in the clay-court event.

Cuevas beat Austria's Sebastian Ofner 6-4 7-6 (7-4) and Mayer topped Argentine countryman Carlos Berlocq 7-5 6-4.