Hamburg Open: Wildcard Molleker out in first round

Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko edged out German wildcard Rudolf Molleker 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Hamburg Open at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center on Monday evening.

Shevchenko, ranked No 56, will play the winner of the match between No 7 seed Luciano Darderi and Lorenzo Sonego next.

Hamburg ATP 500, other first-round matches (Rothenbaum Tennis Center, clay, EUR 1.891.995, most recent results first):

• Francisco Cerundolo (4) beat Francisco Comesana (LL): 7-5, 6-4
• Laslo Djere beat Zizou Bergs: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Maximilian Marterer (WC) beat SoonWoo Kwon: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-5
• Ugo Blanchet (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin: 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2
• Flavio Cobolli beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3
• Alexander Zverev vs. Jesper De Jong
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Holger Rune
• Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Hugo Gaston
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Sebastian Baez
• Marco Trungelliti vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Arthur Fils vs. Jaume Munar
• Luciano Darderi vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Pedro Martinez vs. Matteo Arnaldi