Newport, RI (Sports Network) - Crafty Frenchman Fabrice Santoro highlighted Thursday's second-round winners at the $416,000 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.The fourth-seeded Santoro fought back to beat Canadian Frank Dancevic 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 6-4 on the grass courts at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Up next for the veteran Santoro will be German Mischa Zverev.
Santoro's fellow Frenchman, fifth-seeded Nicolas Mahut, joined the charge into the quarterfinals by holding off his qualifier countryman Antony Dupuis 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1 on Day 4 here. Mahut's round-of-eight opponent on Friday will be Indian qualifier Prakash Amritraj.
Other second-round results saw the aforementioned Zverev overcome Thai Danai Udomchoke 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4) and Amritraj handle American wild card Scoville Jenkins 6-4, 6-3.
The other quarters will pit second-seeded American Vincent Spadea against South African Wesley Moodie and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi versus Belgian Dick Norman. Spadea was a finalist here two years ago.
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