Barcelona Open: Ofner battles past Kotov to reach second round

Austrian Sebastian Ofner advanced to the second round of the Barcelona Open by beating Russian Pavel Kotov 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona.

Ofner, ranked No 43, will face No 5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas next.

Barcelona ATP 500, other first-round results (Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, clay, EUR 2.782.960, most recent results first):

• Flavio Cobolli vs. Rafael Nadal
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Tomas Machac vs. Juncheng Shang
• Jaume Munar vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Hugo Grenier vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Luca Van Assche vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Alexandre Muller beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas (WC): 7-6 (4), 6-0
• Nick Hardt (Q) beat Martin Landaluce (WC): 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Harold Mayot (Q) beat Pedro Cachin: 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-3
• Marco Trungelliti (Q) beat Duje Ajdukovic (Q): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Arthur Cazaux: 5-5 ret.
• Roberto Bautista Agut (WC) beat Roman Safiullin: 6-3, 7-6 (8)
• Brandon Nakashima beat Daniel Evans: 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Facundo Diaz Acosta beat Daniel Rincon (WC): 6-1, 6-4