Barcelona Open: Van Assche reaches second round
Luca Van Assche defeated Zhizhen Zhang 7-5, 6-2 on Tuesday and will play No 17 seed Fabian Marozsan in the next round
Luca van Assche at the 2024 Australian Open (Icon SMI/Panoramic)
Frenchman Luca van Assche moved into the second round of the Barcelona Open by winning against Chinese Zhizhen Zhang 7-5, 6-2 at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on Tuesday.
Van Assche, ranked No 99, will play No 17 seed Fabian Marozsan 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
- Dusan Lajovic beat Diego Schwartzman (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Hugo Grenier (LL): 6-2, 6-4
- Alexandre Muller beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas (WC): 7-6 (4), 6-0
- Sebastian Ofner beat Pavel Kotov: 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
- 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
