No. 1 seed Holger Rune of Denmark bounced back from a rough first set to beat Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 in first-round action at the Swiss Indoors Basel on Tuesday.
Rune overcame four double faults and 15 unforced errors by winning 30 of his 43 first-service points (69.8 percent).
No. 4 seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland beat Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic 7-6 (2), 6-3, while fifth seed Alex de Minaur of Australia beat Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 6-4, 6-4.
No. 7 Nicolas Jarry of Chile overcame Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 7-6 (6), 6-7 (2), 6-4 in three hours and 14 minutes. Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands, Russian Alexander Shevchenko and Swiss wild card Dominic Stricker also won their matches.
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No. 4 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece beat home-country favorite Dominic Thiem 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the first round in Vienna, Austria.
Tsitsipas fired 10 aces and saved all three break points he faced. He had to rally from a 4-2 deficit in the first-set tiebreaker by winning five of the final six points.
No. 3 seed Andrey Rublev of Russia defeated Australia’s Alexei Popyrin 7-6 (5), 6-4, and American sixth seed Tommy Paul took care of Frenchman Alexandre Muller 6-3, 6-1.
No. 7 seed Frances Tiafoe of the U.S. was trailing 1-4 in the first set when opponent Daniel Evans of Great Britain had to retire. Other winners included Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, Czech qualifier Tomas Machac and Italian lucky loser Lorenzo Sonego.
–Field Level Media
