Almaty Open: Fifth seed Machac continues good run with first round win
The Czech will play Kazakh wildcard Beibit Zhukayev in the second round
Tomas Machac in Miami (Icon SMI/Panoramic)
Fifth seed Tomas Machac reached the second round of the Almaty Open by winning against Kazakh wildcard Timofey Skatov 6-3, 6-4 at Almaty Arena on Wednesday.
This was the fast-rising Machac’s 11th win in his last 14 matches on the tour, including semi-finals runs in Tokyo and Shanghai.
Machac, ranked a career-high No 25 in the world and seeded in the top 5 of an ATP Tour singles event for the first time in his career, will play Kazakh wildcard Beibit Zhukayev next.
Almaty ATP 250, other first-round results (Almaty Arena, hard, USD 1,036,700):
- Aleksandar Vukic beat James Duckworth: 6-4, 7-5
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Mikhail Kukushkin (Q): 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)
- Aslan Karatsev (Q) beat Zhizhen Zhang (6): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Daniel Evans (Q) beat Taro Daniel: 6-2, 7-6 (4)
- Beibit Zhukayev beat Benjamin Hassan (Q): 6-4, 6-1
- Otto Virtanen beat Fabio Fognini: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Gabriel Diallo beat Christopher O’Connell: 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Adrian Mannarino (8) beat Roman Safiullin: 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3
- Borna Coric beat Fabian Marozsan (7): 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Maximilian Marterer beat Damir Dzumhur: 7-5, 6-4
- Justin Engel (WC) beat Chak Lam Coleman Wong: 7-5, 6-4
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