Barcelona Open: Nakashima hands Evans third consecutive opening round loss

American Brandon Nakashima advanced to the second round of the Barcelona Open by beating Dan Evans 7-6 (5), 6-2 at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on Monday.

This was the third consecutive opening round loss for Evans on clay. The Brit was also knocked out in the first round in Marrakech and Monte-Carlo prior to this week, with all those defeats coming in straight sets.

Wit this, Nakashima has now won two of his three matches against Evans on tour.

Nakashima, ranked No 87, will play second seed Andrey Rublev next. The Russian has won their only previous clash on tour – in San Diego on hardcourts in 2021.

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

• 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
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Arthur Cazaux
• Roman Safiullin vs. Roberto Bautista Agut

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