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Tiafoe, the second seed, got past Russia's
Aslan Karatsev 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) in second-round action. Neither
player broke serve in the match, with Tiafoe saving four break
points and Karatsev saving two.
In the first-set tiebreaker, Tiafoe jumped out to a 4-1 lead
before prevailing on his third set point. In the second-set
tiebreaker, Karatsev led 5-3 before Tiafoe won the final four
points.
Nakashima edged Australia's Aleksandar Vukic 7-6 (5), 7-6 (9) in
a first-round match. Vukic had two set points in the second-set
tiebreaker before Nakashima wrapped it up on his third match
point.
Russia's Alexander Shevchenko knocked out eighth-seeded
Sebastian Korda of the U.S. 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-4 in a second-round
match.
Other second-round winners were fifth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov of
Bulgaria, Chinese qualifier Juncheng Shang, Finland's Emil
Ruusuvuori and the United States' Michael Mmoh.
Japanese lucky loser Sho Shimabukuro, U.S. qualifier Zachary
Svajda and Australians Thanasi Kokkinakis and Jordan Thompson
earned first-round victories.
Generali Open
Eighth-seeded Daniel Altmaier of Germany rallied for a 6-7 (5),
6-2, 6-4 win over Switzerland's Marc-Andrea Huesler in the first
round at Kitzbuhel, Austria.
Altmaier came through in the match's key moments, saving three
of the four break points that he faced and converting all four
of his break opportunities.
Fifth-seeded Laslo Djere of Serbia downed Australia's
Christopher O'Connell 6-4, 7-6 (4), but seventh-seeded Serbian
Dusan Lajovic lost 6-3, 6-2 to China's Zhizhen Zhang. Austria's
Dominic Thiem, Brazil's Thiago Seyboth Wild and France's Arthur
Rinderknech also logged opening-round wins.
Mifel Tennis Open
Fifth-seeded Alex de Minaur of Australia overcame an
inconsistent serving performance to beat Tunisia's Skander
Mansouri 6-4, 6-4 in the first round at Los Cabos, Mexico.
de Minaur put just 47 percent of his first serves in play, but
those serves were effective when they were accurate, as he won
22 of 26 points. He failed to save any of the three break points
on his serve, but he broke Mansouri's serve on five of 11
opportunities.
Seventh-seeded Dominik Koepfer of Germany cruised to a 6-4, 6-3
victory over Chile's Tomas Barrios Vera. Also winning their
openers were sixth-seeded Nicolas Jarry of Chile, Belarus' Ilya
Ivashka, Croatia's Borna Gojo, Australia's James Duckworth and
Taiwanese lucky loser Jason Jung.
--Field Level Media
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