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Advancing easily were top seed Carlos Alcaraz,
a 6-4, 6-3 winner over Yannick Hanfmann of Germany;
second-seeded Daniil Medvedev of Russia, who took out Tommy Paul
6-2, 6-1; and third-seeded Holger Rune of Denmark, a 6-4, 6-4
victor over Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime.
The seventh seed, Casper Ruud of Norway, topped Germany's Jan-Lennard
Struff in straight sets, but the other seeded players in action
all needed three sets to move on.
No. 5 seed Andrey Rublev of Russia and No. 6 seed Jannik Sinner
of Italy, defeated a pair of Brits, Cameron Norrie and Daniel
Evans, respectively, to advance to the second round. No. 8 seed
Alexander Zverev of Germany ousted Argentina's Diego
Schwartzman.
Astana Open
Jurij Rodionov of Austria defeated second-seeded Sebastian Baez
of Argentina 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals in
Kazakhstan.
Rodionov used five aces and won 76 percent of the points on his
first serve, compared to 52 percent for his opponent, in the
win.
Also advancing were Czech Jiri Lehecka, Sebastian Korda and
Adrian Mannarino of France, seeded fourth through sixth,
respectively.
--Field Level Media
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