Almaty Open: Zhukayev books spot in second round

Kazakh wildcard Beibit Zhukayev advanced to the second round of the Almaty Open by winning against Lebanese qualifier Benjamin Hassan 6-4, 6-1 at Almaty Arena on Tuesday.

Zhukayev, ranked No 213, will play the winner of the match between Kazakh wildcard Timofey Skatov and No 5 seed Tomas Machac next.

Almaty ATP 250, other first-round results (Almaty Arena, hard, USD 1.036.700, most recent results first):

• Timofey Skatov vs. Tomas Machac
• James Duckworth vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Taro Daniel vs. Daniel Evans
• 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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