Cobolli causes early upset in Cincinnati

Italian Flavio Cobolli moved into the second round of the Cincinnati Masters by edging out American Tommy Paul, the No 10 seed, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Monday evening.

Cobolli, ranked No 31, will play the winner of the match between Chilean Alejandro Tabilo and Italian Luciano Darderi next.

Cincinnati Masters 1000, other first-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 6.795.555, most recent results first):

• Gael Monfils vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Nuno Borges
• Holger Rune vs. Matteo Berrettini
• Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Jack Draper vs. Jaume Munar
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Mariano Navone
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Nicolas Jarry
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Luciano Darderi
• Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Corentin Moutet
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Ben Shelton vs. Reilly Opelka
• Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Sebastian Korda
• Max Purcell vs. Tomas Machac
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
• Brandon Holt vs. Arthur Fils
• Taylor Fritz vs. Brandon Nakashima
• Jordan Thompson vs. Ugo Humbert
• Marcos Giron vs. Sebastian Baez
• Alex Michelsen vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Karen Khachanov vs. Francisco Cerundolo