Barcelona Open: Acosta into second round, faces Coric next
The Argentine beat Daniel Rincon 6-1, 6-4 on Monday. He’ll play No 15 seed Borna Coric in the next round
Facundo Diaz Acosta – Imago / Panoramic
Argentina’s Facundo Diaz Acosta advanced to the second round of the Barcelona Open by winning against Spanish wildcard Daniel Rincon 6-1, 6-4 at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on Monday.
Acosta, ranked No 53, will face No 15 seed Borna Coric next.
Barcelona ATP 500, other first-round matches (Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, clay, EUR 2,782,960):
- Jaume Munar vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Tomas Machac vs. Juncheng Shang
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Rafael Nadal
- Hugo Grenier vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Luca Van Assche vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Alexandre Muller vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
- Pavel Kotov vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Nick Hardt vs. Martin Landaluce
- Harold Mayot vs. Pedro Cachin
- Duje Ajdukovic vs. Marco Trungelliti
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. Arthur Cazaux
- Roman Safiullin vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Daniel Evans vs. Brandon Nakashima
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