Croatia Open: Marozsan survives first-round marathon against Shevchenko

Hungarian Fabian Marozsan reached the second round of the Croatia Open by edging out Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8) at the ITC Stella Maris in Umag on Sunday evening.

Marozsan, ranked No 45, will face the winner of the match between Brazilian Thiago Monteiro and No 7 seed Tomas Machac next.

Umag ATP 250, other first-round results (ITC Stella Maris, clay, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):

• Luca Van Assche vs. Fabio Fognini
• Luciano Darderi vs. Duje Ajdukovic
• Mili Poljicak vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Enzo Couacaud vs. Matej Dodig
• Marco Trungelliti vs. Guido Andreozzi
• Filip Misolic vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Mariano Navone vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Jakub Mensik vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Tomas Machac
• Camilo Ugo Carabelli vs. Luka Mikrut: sunday
• Alexandre Muller beat Matteo Arnaldi (8): 7-6 (8), 6-4