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The even match saw Murray put 63 percent of his first serves in
play while Ymer was at 62 percent, and Murray converted 5 of 7
break points while Ymer cashed in on 6 of 9.
Murray couldn't take advantage of four set points in the opening
set, three of them in the lengthy tiebreaker. The third set was
one-sided, with Ymer winning the first four games and closing
out the win.
Other first-round winners included France's Benoit Paire and
Adrian Mannarino, Great Britain's Jack Draper and Kyle Edmund,
Croatia's Borna Gojo, Germany's Dominik Koepfer and the United
States' Denis Kudla and J.J. Wolf.
The tournament's 16 seeds, including top-seeded Andrey Rublev of
Russia, received first-round byes.
Abierto de Tenis Mifel
Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis needed just under two hours to
upset ninth-seeded Quentin Halys of France 7-6 (1), 7-5 in the
first round at Los Cabos Mexico.
Berankis jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first-set tiebreaker,
lost one point, then took the final three. He managed just one
ace in the match but won 10 of his 12 service games.
Taiwan's Chun-Hsin Tseng and Australia's Rinky Hijikata and Max
Purcell also earned opening-round victories.
--Field Level Media
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