Max Purcell and Chris O'Connell have both been knocked out of the Sofia Open men's singles despite battling two-hour-plus performances in the Bulgarian showpiece.
O'Connell took a first-set lead against seventh-seeded Austrian Sebastian Ofner, ranked 22 places above the Australian world No.66. But Ofner came back to take the match 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-2 in two hours, 15 minutes.
