Mannarino gets much-needed win in Chengdu

No 5 seed Adrian Mannarino defeated qualifier Terence Atmane 6-7 (9), 6-1, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Chengdu Open at the Sichuan International Tennis Center on Thursday.

Mannarino, ranked No 46, will play Chinese wildcard Yi Zhou next.

Chengdu ATP 250, other first-round results (Sichuan International Tennis Center, hard, USD 1.171.655, most recent results first):

• Federico Agustin Gomez (Q) beat Alexandre Muller: 6-4, 7-5
• Roman Safiullin (8) beat Fabio Fognini: 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
• Christopher O’Connell beat Pavel Kotov: 6-4, 7-5
• Yannick Hanfmann beat Shintaro Mochizuki (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Juncheng Shang beat Kei Nishikori (WC): 6-4, 6-4
• Aleksandar Vukic beat Borna Coric: 3-6, 7-6 (9), 6-4
• Alibek Kachmazov (Q) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-4, 7-6 (7)
• Yi Zhou beat Chun-Hsin Tseng: 2-6, 6-1, 3-1 ret.
• Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (7) beat Fajing Sun (WC): 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-4
• Taro Daniel beat Lorenzo Sonego (6): 6-4, 7-5
• Lukas Klein beat Adam Walton: 7-6 (3), 6-4