Croatia Open: Popyrin bows out in opening round

Jakub Mensik advanced to the second round of the Croatia Open by winning against Australian Alexei Popyrin 6-3, 6-2 at the ITC Stella Maris in Umag on Monday.

Mensik, ranked No 81, will face the winner of the match between Italian Luciano Darderi, the No 5 seed, and Croat Duje Ajdukovic next.

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

• Camilo Ugo Carabelli beat Luka Mikrut (WC): 6-2, 7-5
• Fabian Marozsan beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8)
• Alexandre Muller beat Matteo Arnaldi (8): 7-6 (8), 6-4
• Luca Van Assche vs. Fabio Fognini
• Luciano Darderi vs. Duje Ajdukovic
• Mili Poljicak vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Enzo Couacaud vs. Matej Dodig
• Filip Misolic vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Mariano Navone vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Marco Trungelliti vs. Guido Andreozzi
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Tomas Machac