US Open: Tsitsipas scores a morale-boosting win to reach second round

Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 26 seed, advanced to the second round of the US Open after a morale-boosting win over Frenchman Alexandre Muller in New York on Tuesday evening.

The former world No 3, who has struggled for most of this season, came from a set down to beat Muller 4-6, 6-0, 6-1, 7-6 (5) at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Tsitsipas, now ranked No 28, will play German Daniel Altmaier, who needed five sets to overcome Serb Hamad Medjedovic in another first-round clash.

New York (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90,000,000):

• Shintaro Mochizuki (Q) beat Hugo Gaston: 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
• Felix Auger-Aliassime (25) beat Billy Harris (LL): 6-4, 7-6 (8), 6-4
• Leandro Riedi (Q) beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 6-4, 6-2, 6-3
• Valentin Royer (WC) beat Yunchaokete Bu: 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (1)
• Jannik Sinner (1) beat Vit Kopriva: 6-1, 6-1, 6-2
• Alexander Bublik (23) beat Marin Cilic: 6-4, 6-1, 6-4
• Alexei Popyrin beat Emil Ruusuvuori: 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• David Goffin beat Quentin Halys: 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-3, 7-5
• Denis Shapovalov (27) beat Marton Fucsovics: 6-4, 6-4, 6-0
• Francisco Cerundolo (19) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3
• Lorenzo Musetti (10) beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Reilly Opelka: 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
• Gabriel Diallo (31) beat Damir Dzumhur: 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-5, 7-5
• Casper Ruud (12) beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-1, 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Andrey Rublev (15) beat Dino Prizmic (Q): 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
• Karen Khachanov (9) beat Nishesh Basavareddy (WC): 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5, 6-1
• Tristan Boyer (WC) beat James Duckworth (LL): 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
• Jan-Lennard Struff (Q) beat Mackenzie McDonald: 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-3
• Kamil Majchrzak beat Hugo Dellien: 6-1, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-4
• Jaume Munar beat Jaime Faria (LL): 6-0, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2
• Holger Rune (11) beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-3, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2)
• Frances Tiafoe (17) beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-3
• Jenson Brooksby beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
• Flavio Cobolli (24) beat Francesco Passaro (Q): 7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
• Mattia Bellucci beat Juncheng Shang: 7-6, 1-6, 6-3, 3-0 ret.
• Francisco Comesana beat Alex Michelsen (28): 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Raphael Collignon beat Daniel Elahi Galan (LL): 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
• Jack Draper (5) beat Federico Agustin Gomez (Q): 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (7), 6-2
• Joao Fonseca beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Cameron Norrie beat Sebastian Korda: 7-5, 6-4, 0-0 ret.
• Lloyd Harris (Q) beat Sebastian Baez: 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
• Martin Damm (Q) beat Darwin Blanch (WC): 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Chak Lam Coleman Wong (Q) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (4)
• Adam Walton beat Ugo Humbert (22): 6-4, 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-1
• Zizou Bergs beat Chun-Hsin Tseng: 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
• Benjamin Bonzi beat Daniil Medvedev (13): 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 0-6, 6-4
• Novak Djokovic (7) beat Learner Tien: 6-1, 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Brandon Nakashima (30) beat Jesper De Jong (Q): 6-2, 6-7 (5), 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7)
• Marcos Giron beat Mariano Navone: 6-0, 7-5, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4
• Jordan Thompson beat Corentin Moutet: 6-2, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli: 6-3, 6-2, 6-0
• Pablo Carreno Busta beat Pablo Llamas Ruiz (Q): 7-6 (7), 6-4, 6-2
• Jerome Kym (Q) beat Ethan Quinn: 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5)
• Zachary Svajda (Q) beat Zsombor Piros (Q): 6-4, 6-2, 7-5
• Tomas Machac (21) beat Luca Nardi: 6-3, 6-1, 6-1
• Adrian Mannarino beat Tallon Griekspoor (29): 7-5, 6-4, 6-0
• Jiri Lehecka (20) beat Borna Coric: 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-1
• Eliot Spizzirri (WC) beat Stefan Dostanic (WC): 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Luciano Darderi (32) beat Rinky Hijikata: 6-2, 6-1, 6-2
• Taylor Fritz (4) beat Emilio Nava (WC): 7-5, 6-2, 6-3
• Ugo Blanchet (Q) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2
• Ben Shelton (6) beat Ignacio Buse (Q): 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (18) beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-1, 6-1, 6-2
• Arthur Rinderknech beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 7-6 (2), 7-5, 4-6, 6-2
• Jakub Mensik (16) beat Nicolas Jarry: 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-4

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