Rune on a roll, beats de Minaur to reach Basel second round

Dane Holger Rune reached the second round of the Swiss Indoors by winning against Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 7 seed, 6-2, 7-5 at the Halle Saint-Jacques in Basel on Wednesday afternoon.

De Minaur was also the man Rune beat on Saturday in the Stockholm semi-final.

Rune, ranked No 25, will face French qualifier Ugo Humbert next.

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Tennis Majors

Basel ATP 500, other first-round results:

• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Ugo Humbert beat Jenson Brooksby: 6-1, 6-4
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-1
• Roberto Bautista Agut (6) beat Laslo Djere (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Stan Wawrinka beat Casper Ruud (2): 6-4, 6-4
• Dominic Stricker (WC) beat Maxime Cressy: 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Botic van de Zandschulp beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Andy Murray beat Roman Safiullin (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4
• Alex Molcan beat Mackenzie McDonald: 5-7, 6-4, 7-5
• Pablo Carreno Busta (5) beat Sebastian Baez: 6-2, 6-1
• Arthur Rinderknech (Q) beat Marin Čilić (4): 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• Carlos Alcaraz (1) beat Jack Draper: 3-6, 6-2, 7-5
• Alexander Bublik beat Aslan Karatsev (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (2)
• Brandon Nakashima beat David Goffin (WC): 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4