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Khachanov served up eight aces to McDonald's one, saved all
three break points he faced and went 2-for-2 in breaking
McDonald's serve. The first-set tiebreak stood at 3-3 with
McDonald serving when Khachanov took control and won the final
four points.
No. 5 seed Daniel Evans of Great Britain, the only other seeded
player in action Monday, dispatched Belarus' Egor Gerasimov 6-4,
6-4.
Alex Molcan of Slovakia rallied to beat Australian qualifier
Christopher O'Connell 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 6-4, in nearly two hours
and 36 minutes. Soonwoo Kwon of South Korea and Botic van de
Zandschulp of the Netherlands also were first-round victors.
Open 13 Provence
No. 5 seed Ilya Ivashka of Belarus survived a tightly contested
first set and defeated Slovakia's Norbert Gombos 7-6 (5), 6-3,
in the first round at Marseilles, France.
Gombos led the first-set tiebreak 5-4 before Ivashka came back
and won the last three points. Ivashka broke Gombos' serve twice
and took advantage of his opponent's five double faults.
Italy's Stefano Travaglia eked out a 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (1)
victory over Switzerland's Henri Laaksonen. Frenchman Richard
Gasquet got by Sweden's Mikael Ymer 6-4, 7-5.
Delray Beach Open
Australia's John Millman pulled out a serving-dominated win over
eighth-seeded Maxime Cressy of the United States in the first
round at Delray Beach, Fla., 6-7 (2), 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3).
The match featured just two service breaks, one by each player
in the second set. Each players won 80 percent of his
first-serve points and saved four of the five break points on
his serve.
Brandon Nakashima routed Denis Kudla 6-1, 6-1 in an all-U.S.
matchup, and another American player, Steve Johnson, advanced
with a 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-2 victory over South Africa's Kevin
Anderson. Italy's Andreas Seppi topped Germany's Peter Gojowczyk
7-5, 6-4, and Germany's Oscar Otte downed Yoshihito Nishioka of
Japan 7-6 (8), 6-3.
Rio Open
Seventh-seeded Carlos Alcaraz came from behind to defeat Spanish
countryman Jaume Munar 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the first round at Rio
de Janeiro.
Munar had more break points in the match, 13-9, but he took
advantage of just three of his opportunities while Alcaraz broke
serve five times.
Another Spaniard, Pedro Martinez, beat China's Juncheng Shang
6-3 6-4. Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic cruised past Brazil's Felipe
Meligeni Rodrigues Alves 6-3, 6-0, and Spain's Pablo Andujar
defeated Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas 7-6 (2), 7-5.
--Field Level Media
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