Barcelona Open: Bautista Agut reaches second round, to meet Khachanov

Spanish wildcard Roberto Bautista Agut won against Russian Roman Safiullin 6-3, 7-6 (8) to advance to the second round of the Barcelona Open at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on Monday.

It was a good birthday gift for the Spaniard, who turned 36 years old on Sunday.

Bautista Agut, ranked No 84, will play No 7 seed Karen Khachanov next.

Barcelona ATP 500, other first-round matches (Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, clay, EUR 2,782,960):

• Matteo Arnaldi beat Arthur Cazaux: 5-5 ret.
• 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
• Nick Hardt vs. Martin Landaluce
• Harold Mayot vs. Pedro Cachin
• Duje Ajdukovic vs. Marco Trungelliti

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