Barcelona Open: Passaro moves into second round
Francesco Passaro beat Fernando Verdasco 6-1, 6-1 on Tuesday. He’ll play No 15 seed Francisco Cerundolo in the next round
Passaro in Naples in 2022 (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Italian Francesco Passaro advanced to the second round of the Barcelona Open by winning against Spanish wildcard Fernando Verdasco 6-1, 6-1 at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on Tuesday.
Passaro, ranked No 125, will face No 15 seed Francisco Cerundolo next.
Barcelona ATP500, other first-round results (Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, clay, EUR 2.722.480, most recent results first):
- Daniel Rincon vs. Jason Kubler
- Pedro Cachin vs. Gijs Brouwer
- David Goffin vs. Feliciano López
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Emilio Gomez
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Jaume Munar
- Lorenzo Giustino vs. Alexander Shevchenko: tuesday
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Yibing Wu: tuesday
- Jozef Kovalik (Q) beat Pedro Martinez: 7-5, 2-6, 7-5
- Pavel Kotov (Q) beat Oleksii Krutykh (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-1
- Nicolas Jarry beat Marco Trungelliti (Q): 7-5, 6-3
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Pablo Andujar (WC): 6-2, 7-5
- Nuno Borges beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 6-3
- Emil Ruusuvuori beat Alexander Bublik: 6-0, 6-3
- Ben Shelton beat Mackenzie McDonald: 7-5, 6-4
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles beat Attila Balazs: 6-2, 6-2
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