Nick Kyrgios has kept his perfect record at Marseille's Open 13 tournament intact with a straight-sets victory over Malek Jaziri.
Kyrgios, who beat Marin Cilic in last year's decider to win his first title, won 6-4 6-2 over the world No.47 on Wednesday in just under an hour to take his overall record at the tournament to seven wins and no losses.
The 21-year-old recorded six aces in his first set on his way to winning 93 per cent of his first-serve points. He broke Jaziri in the opening game of the second set before the Tunisian was forced to take a medical time-out with the score 3-1. Kyrgios eventually prevailed with a 216 km/h ace to set up a date with either Nicolas Mahut or Norbert Grombos in the quarter-finals.
In Wednesday's earlier matches sixth seed Richard Gasquet defeated Mikhail Youzhny in straight sets while Gilles Simon beat countryman Julien Benneteau 6-2 2-6 6-3 and Daniil Medvedev eliminated French eighth seed Benoit Paire in a third-set tiebreaker.
