Marin Cilic

Top-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco was an easy third-round winner, while second-seeded Croat Ivo Karlovic went by way of the upset Wednesday at the $708,000 Pilot Pen Tennis event, a final U.S. Open tune-up.

The fourth-seeded Karlovic will play thirdseeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain, who beat Marin Cilic of Croatia 6-3, 6-1. Monfils struggled with a shoulder …

Now he will be facig a bit tougher opponent - Marin Cilic, who also didn’t have too much work with T. Johansson and A. Bogdanovic. …