China Open: Kotov beats wildcard Zhou in first round

Russian qualifier Pavel Kotov moved into the second round of the China Open by edging out Chinese wildcard Yi Zhou 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday.

Kotov, ranked No 63, will face the winner of the match between Kazakh Alexander Bublik, the No 8 seed, and Italian Flavio Cobolli next at the Olympic Green Tennis Center in Beijing.

Beijing ATP 500, other first-round matches (Olympic Green Tennis Center, hard, USD 3,720,165):

• Adrian Mannarino beat Lorenzo Sonego: 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Jakub Mensik
• Karen Khachanov vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Gael Monfils vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Zizou Bergs vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• Juncheng Shang vs. Yunchaokete Bu
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Andrey Rublev vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Roman Safiullin vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Alexander Bublik vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
• Tallon Griekspoor vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Jannik Sinner vs. Nicolas Jarry