Winston-Salem Open: Home hope Michelsen overcomes Varillas to reach second round
Alex Michelsen won against Juan Pablo Varillas 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-0 and will play No 15 seed Sebastian Ofner in the next round
Alex Michelsen competes on hard-courts in 2023 Imago / Panoramic
American wildcard Alex Michelsen reached the second round of the Winston-Salem Open by beating Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-0 at Wake Forest Tennis Complex.
Michelsen, ranked No 138, will face No 15 seed Sebastian Ofner 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
- Daniel Elahi Galan beat Radu Albot: 6-1, 7-5
- Benjamin Bonzi beat Alexandre Muller: 6-4, 6-4
- Juan Manuel Cerundolo beat Roman Safiullin: 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3
- 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.
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