Barcelona Open: Arnaldi into second round to face Baez
The Italian benefited from the retirement of Arthur Cazaux at 5-5 in the first set on Monday
Matteo Arnaldi in Madrid (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell •Second round •
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Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi reached the second round of the Barcelona Open when Frenchman Arthur Cazaux retired on Monday at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona.
Arnaldi, ranked No 40, led 5-5 when Cazaux, ranked No 75, pulled out at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on Monday afternoon.
The Italian will face No 8 seed Sebastian Baez next.
Barcelona ATP 500, other first-round matches (Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, clay, EUR 2,782,960):
- Brandon Nakashima beat Daniel Evans: 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Facundo Diaz Acosta beat Daniel Rincon (WC): 6-1, 6-4
- 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
- Harold Mayot vs. Pedro Cachin
- Nick Hardt vs. Martin Landaluce
- Duje Ajdukovic vs. Marco Trungelliti
- Roman Safiullin vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
