Mexican Open: Draper gains Australian Open revenge over Paul
Jack Draper won against Tommy Paul 6-0, 6-4 on Tuesday night and will face the winner of the match between Portuguese Nuno Borges and Japanese lucky loser Yoshihito Nishioka in the next round
Jack Draper (Zuma/Panoramic)
Jack Draper defeated American Tommy Paul, the No 7 seed, 6-0, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Mexican Open at the Princess Mundo Imperial Resort in Acapulco on Monday night.
The win sees Draper extend his head-to-head advantage over Paul to 3-1, with the American’s only win coming last month at the Australian Open.
Draper, ranked No 50, will play the winner of the match between Portuguese Nuno Borges and Japanese lucky loser Yoshihito Nishioka next.
Acapulco ATP 500, other first-round results (Princess Mundo Imperial Resort, hard, USD 2.206.080, most recent results first):
- Michael Mmoh vs. Holger Rune
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Jordan Thompson
- Terence Atmane vs. Dominik Koepfer
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Max Purcell
- Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Casper Ruud vs. Christopher Eubanks
- Roman Safiullin vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Alexander Zverev vs. Daniel Altmaier
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Taylor Fritz
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Alex De Minaur vs. Taro Daniel
- Ernesto Escobedo vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Nuno Borges vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- Daniel Evans vs. Ben Shelton: tuesday
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Diego Schwartzman
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