Nordea Open: Ofner edges past Etcheverry to reach second round
Sebastian Ofner edged out Tomas Martin Etcheverry 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 and will face Spaniard Bernabe Zapata Miralles in the next round
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Austrian Sebastian Ofner reached the second round of the Nordea Open by edging out Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry, the No 6 seed, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 at the Båstads tennisstadion in Bastad on Tuesday evening.
Ofner, ranked No 58, will play Spaniard Bernabe Zapata Miralles next.
Bastad ATP250, other first-round results (Båstads tennisstadion, clay, EUR 562.815, most recent results first):
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Emil Ruusuvuori: tuesday
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo: 6-3, 6-3
- Alexander Zverev (5) beat Alex Molcan: 6-4, 3-6, 7-5
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles beat Hugo Dellien (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Pavel Kotov (Q) beat Marco Cecchinato: 6-1, 6-2
- Federico Coria beat Sebastian Baez (8): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (5)
- Leo Borg (WC) beat Elias Ymer (WC): 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Jozef Kovalik (Q) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (7): 6-3, 6-4
- Filip Misolic (Q) beat Dusan Lajovic: 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4)
- Thiago Monteiro beat Daniel Elahi Galan: 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
- Luca Van Assche beat Dragos Nicolae Madaras (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-4
