In a battle of Croatian wild cards, 17-year-old
Dino Prizmic beat Duje Ajdukovic 6-1, 6-2 for his first ATP Tour
win. Prizmic won the boys' singles title at the French Open last
month.
Japan's Taro Daniel rallied past Spanish wild card Martin
Landaluce 1-6, 7-5, 6-2, and Alexei Popyrin of Australia beat
Benjamin Bonzi of France 6-4, 7-5.
Hamburg European Open
Serbia's Laslo Djere upset No. 6 seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry of
Argentina 7-6 (2), 6-3 in the first round in Germany.
Djere won five straight points in the first-set tiebreaker to
take control, finishing the match with 27 of 36 first-service
points won (75 percent).
Daniel Altmaier of Germany defeated France's Richard Gasquet
7-5, 6-4, while Luca Van Assche won a battle of two Frenchmen,
topping Alexandre Muller 7-6 (3), 6-4.
Argentina's Guido Pella was a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 winner over
Brazilian Thiago Monteiro.
Atlanta Open
Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis escaped a 4-0 deficit in the
third-set tiebreaker and emerged with a 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
victory over France's Gael Monfils in the first round at
Atlanta.
Monfils still led 5-3 in the tiebreaker before Kokkinakis reeled
off the final four points to cap a set that featured no service
breaks.
In other opening-round action, Australia's Aleksandar Vukic
produced a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over U.S. wild-card entrant Ethan
Quinn, who turned pro last month after starring for the
University of Georgia. South Africa's Lloyd Harris rallied past
Australia's James Duckworth 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, and the United
States' J.J. Wolf topped Taiwan's Jason Jung 6-2, 6-1.
--Field Level Media
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