Belgrade Open: Korda through to second round defeating seeded Popyrin

American Sebastian Korda advanced to the second round of the Belgrade Open by edging out Australian Alexei Popyrin, the No 7 seed, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Belgrade Arena on Sunday evening.

Korda, ranked No 54, will play the winner of the match between Bosnian Damir Dzumhur and Englishman Jacob Fearnley next.

Belgrade ATP 250, other first-round results (Belgrade Arena, hard, EUR 766.715, most recent results first):

• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Ivan Ivanov
• Marcos Giron vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
• Alexandre Muller vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Reilly Opelka vs. Vit Kopriva
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Kamil Majchrzak
• Eliot Spizzirri vs. Laslo Djere
• Damir Dzumhur vs. Jacob Fearnley
• Nuno Borges (6) beat Stefanos Sakellaridis (WC): 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Alejandro Tabilo beat Adam Walton: 7-6 (7), 6-7 (6), 7-5