ATP Korea Open: Albot advances to second round

Radu Albot moved into the second round of the Korea Open by defeating Japanese lucky loser Hiroki Moriya 6-3, 6-4 at the Seoul Olympic Park on Monday.

Albot, ranked No 92, will play the winner of the match between American Steve Johnson and wildcard JiSung Nam next.

Seoul ATP 250, other first-round matches (Seoul Olympic Park, hard, USD 1.237.570, most recent results first):

• SoonWoo Kwon vs. Yunseong Chung
• Jenson Brooksby vs. Tung-lin Wu
• Steve Johnson vs. JiSung Nam
• Chun-Hsin Tseng vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Pedro Martinez
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Daniel Evans
• Taro Daniel vs. Emilio Gomez
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Ryan Peniston
• Seong Chan Hong vs. Kaichi Uchida
• Aleksandar Kovacevic (LL) beat Miomir Kecmanovic (7): 6-4, 6-4
• Jaume Munar beat Yosuke Watanuki (Q): 2-1 ret.