China Open: Nishioka comes through tricky encounter with wildcard Shang to reach second round
Yoshihito Nishioka defeated Juncheng Shang 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 and will face Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 6 seed, in the next round
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Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka beat Chinese wildcard Juncheng Shang 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 to reach the second round of the China Open at the Olympic Green Tennis Center in Beijing.
Nishioka, ranked No 38, will play Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 6 seed, next.
Beijing ATP500, other first-round results (Olympic Green Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.633.875, most recent results first):
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Casper Ruud
- Carlos Alcaraz vs. Yannick Hanfmann: friday
- Lorenzo Musetti beat Karen Khachanov: 6-3, 1-6, 6-2
- Alexander Zverev (8) beat Diego Schwartzman: 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-4
- Nicolas Jarry beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (4): 6-4, 6-4
- Andrey Rublev (5) beat Cameron Norrie: 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Holger Rune (3) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime: 6-4, 6-4
- Daniil Medvedev (2) beat Tommy Paul: 6-2, 6-1
- Jannik Sinner beat Daniel Evans: 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-3
- Grigor Dimitrov beat Mackenzie McDonald (WC): 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Alex De Minaur beat Andy Murray: 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (6)
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Yi Zhou (WC): 6-2, 6-2
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Lloyd Harris (Q): 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-3
- Matteo Arnaldi (Q) beat J.J. Wolf (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Ugo Humbert beat Lorenzo Sonego: 7-5, 3-6, 6-0
