Winston-Salem Open: Cerundolo battles past Safiullin to reach second round
Juan Manuel Cerundolo won against Roman Safiullin 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 and will face No 10 seed Yannick Hanfmann in the next round
February 28, 2021, Cordoba Capital, Cordoba, Argentina: Argentine tennis player Juan Manuel Cerundolo (335 °) ARG, finalist for the title at the Cordoba Open 2021.
Argentinian Juan Manuel Cerundolo beat Russian Roman Safiullin 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Winston-Salem Open at Wake Forest Tennis Complex.
Cerundolo, ranked No 103, will play No 10 seed Yannick Hanfmann next.
Winston-Salem ATP250, other first-round results (Wake Forest Tennis Complex, hard, USD 760.930, most recent results first):
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Dominic Thiem
- Luca Van Assche vs. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski
- Michael Mmoh vs. Darian King
- Dominik Koepfer vs. Constant Lestienne
- Pavel Kotov vs. Mitchell Krueger
- Illya Marchenko vs. Rinky Hijikata
- Nuno Borges vs. Jack Draper
- Max Purcell vs. Marco Cecchinato
- Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Quentin Halys
- Brandon Nakashima vs. Jason Kubler
- Alex Michelsen vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
- Radu Albot vs. Daniel Elahi Galan
- Benjamin Bonzi beat Alexandre Muller: 6-4, 6-4
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Ilya Ivashka: 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2
- Marc-Andrea Huesler beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-3, 4-6, 4-0 ret.
