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Zapata Miralles squandered a set point in the
first-set tiebreaker, but he won the last four games of the
second set to even the match. Carballes Baena broke serve to
open the third set and was still on top until Zapata Miralles
broke back for 4-4. A break in the last game sealed the victory
for Zapata Miralles.
The win was the first of the year for Zapata Miralles. He was
0-3 before Monday, including a loss to Carballes Baena in the
opening round at Pune, India, last month.
In other first-round action, Serbia's Dusan Lajovic defeated
Peru's Juan Pablo Varillas 7-6 (3), 6-3, and Argentina's Juan
Manuel Cerundolo advanced when Spain's Pablo Andujar retired
while trailing 6-4, 1-0.
In the last match of the night, Italy's Luciano Darderi ousted
France's Hugo Gaston 6-4, 6-3.
Open Sud de France
Wild-card entrant Arthur Fils topped French countryman Richard
Gasquet 7-5, 7-5 in the opening round at Montpellier, France.
Fils, an 18-year-old ranked 163rd in the world, is appearing in
the main draw of an ATP Tour event for just the second time. He
qualified for the ATP Masters 1000 Paris last summer before
losing a three-set match to Italy's Fabio Fognini in the first
round.
In the day's only other match at Montpellier, Georgia's Nikoloz
Basilashvili came from behind to beat France's Constant
Lestienne 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-2.
Dallas Open
Nebraska native Jack Sock eked out a 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4 win over
Belarus' Ilya Ivashka in the first round at Dallas.
Sock overcame amassing more double faults (10) than aces (nine)
and survived a tense end to the match.
The score was level 4-4 in the third set before Sock won a
22-point game, saving five break points, to go up 5-4. He then
broke serve in the next game to wrap up a 3-hour, 3-minute win.
--Field Level Media
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