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Also on Tuesday, Frenchmen Hugo Grenier and
Richard Gasquet each won their respective first-round matches
while countryman Alexandre Muller was not as fortunate. Grenier
seized a 7-6 (5), 7-5 win over Germany's Maximilian Marterer,
and Gasquet secured a 6-4, 6-4 triumph over Kazakhstan's
Alexander Shevchenko.
Former World No. 1 Andy Murray of Great Britain snapped a
six-match skid with a 6-1, 7-6 (5) win over Muller, however.
Murray will square off versus Mensik in the second round.
Rio Open
Two of the top three seeds, Spain's Carlos Alcaraz and Nicolas
Jarry of Spain, were eliminated in their first-round matches in
Rio de Janeiro.
Alcaraz, the top seed, retired due to a right ankle injury with
the score 1-1 against Brazilian wild-card entrant Thiago
Monteiro.
Jarry, the third seed, fell 6-1, 1-6, 7-5 against Germany's
Yannick Hanfmann in 1 hour, 54 minutes. Hanfmann got an early
service break for a 2-0 lead in the third set, but Jarry broke
back in the seventh game. With Jarry serving to force a
tiebreaker, Hanfmann got a match-clinching service break.
Other first-round winners included three Argentines, No. 5
Sebastian Baez, Facundo Diaz Acosta and qualifier Mariano Navone,
as well as Chile's Cristian Garin, Serbia's Dusan Lajovic and
Brazilian qualifier Felipe Meligeni Alves.
Mifel Tennis Open
Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka needed just 49 minutes to oust
Italian qualifier Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 6-0 in first-round action
at Los Cabos, Mexico.
Nishioka never faced a break point and converted six of his
seven break opportunities. He won 18 of the 20 points on
Cobolli's second serve.
Australia's Rinky Hijikata scored a 6-3, 7-6 (2) victory over
sixth-seeded Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia. Eighth-seeded Jordan
Thompson of Australia defeated Mexican wild-card entrant Ernesto
Escobedo 6-4, 6-3.
Portugal's Nuno Borges and U.S. players Marcos Giron and Emilio
Nava also advanced. Australia's Aleksandar Vukic squeezed past
Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez 7-6 (5), 7-6 (10), as the 692nd-ranked
Mexican wild-card entrant failed to take advantage of one set
point in the opening set and four in the second-set tiebreaker.
--Field Level Media
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