Belgrade Open: Altmaier upsets 8th seed Darderi in first round

Germany’s Daniel Altmaier moved into the second round of the Belgrade Open by beating Italian Luciano Darderi, the No 8 seed, 7-6 (1), 6-3 at the Belgrade Arena on Monday.

This was the German’s second win over Draderi in three career meetings on the professional circuit. It also improves his record on the ATP Tour this year to 12 wins against 21 losses.

Altmaier, ranked No 93, will play the winner of the match between Serb Miomir Kecmanovic and Australian Christopher O’Connell next.

Belgrade ATP 250, other first-round matches (Belgrade Arena, hard, EUR 579,320):

• Hamad Medjedovic (WC) beat Brandon Nakashima (6): 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
• Fabian Marozsan beat Juncheng Shang: 2-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5
• Roman Safiullin vs. Fabio Fognini
• Laslo Djere vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Denis Shapovalov
• Dusan Lajovic vs. Mariano Navone
• James Duckworth vs. Lukas Klein
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Pavel Kotov
• Branko Djuric vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
• Marin Cilic vs. Alexandre Muller

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