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Djokovic delivered 39 winners in his first
appearance at the event since winning the title in 2007.
Home-country favorite Dominic Thiem, the second seed, also
prevailed in straight sets, posting a 6-4, 7-5 triumph over
Vitaliy Sachko of Ukraine.
In other matches, Chile's Cristian Garin defeated Switzerland's
Stan Wawrinka 6-4, 6-7 (9), 6-3, and Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov
notched a 7-6 (6), 6-3 victory over Russian Karen Khachanov.
Poland's Hubert Hurkacz, Great Britain's Daniel Evans and
Italy's Lorenzo Sonego also advanced.
Astana Open
The Czech Republic's Jiri Vesely fired nine aces while stunning
fifth-seeded American Tennys Sandgren 6-4, 7-6 (7) in a
first-round match at Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
Sandgren had 13 aces and converted 36 of 43 first-service points
in defeat. Vesely next plays Egor Gerasimov after the Belarusian
outlasted South Africa's Lloyd Harris 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (3).
In other matches, Italian qualifier Andreas Seppi defeated
Russian qualifier Aslan Karatsev 6-3, 1-6, 6-3; Japan's Yuichi
Sugita knocked off Bosnia's Damir Dzumhur 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 in a
battle of qualifiers; and Finland qualifier Emil Ruusuvuori was
a 6-2, 6-0 winner over Kazakhstan wild-card entrant Timofey
Skatov.
--Field Level Media
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