ATP roundup: No. 2 seed Casper Ruud cruises in Barcelona

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[April 20, 2022]  Second-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway defeated Brandon Nakashima 6-3, 6-2 in 89 minutes Tuesday in the second round at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell in Spain.

Tennis - ATP Masters 1000 - Monte Carlo Masters - Monte-Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France - April 14, 2022 Norway's Casper Ruud in action during his third round match against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

No. 4 seed Cameron Norrie of England, No. 6 Diego Schwartzman of Argentina and No. 11 Lorenzo Sonego of Italy also advanced to the third round. Italy's Lorenzo Musetti upset No. 12 Daniel Evans of Great Britain 6-4, 7-6 (8).

In first-round action, winners included South Africa's Lloyd Harris, Hungary's Marton Fucsovics, Spain's Carlos Taberner, Finland's Emil Ruusuvuori, Bolivia's Hugo Dellien, France's Ugo Humbert and Belarus' Ilya Ivashka.

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Australia's John Millman spoiled Dominic Thiem's first tour-level match since June, edging the Austrian 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in two hours and 35 minutes to reach the second round in Belgrade. Thiem was sidelined with a wrist injury.

No. 8 Filip Krajinovic of Serbia, the only seeded player in action, advanced with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) victory over Belgium's David Goffin.

Four qualifiers won their first-round matches: Japan's Taro Daniel, the Czech Republic's Jiri Lehecka, Brazil's Thiago Monteiro and Russia's Roman Safiullin. Also moving on were Serbia's Laslo Djere and Germany's Oscar Otte.

--Field Level Media

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