Cincinnati Masters: Darderi knocks out Tabilo to move into second round
Luciano Darderi beat Alejandro Tabilo 6-3, 7-6 (5) on Tuesday evening and will face Italian Flavio Cobolli in the next round
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            Italian Luciano Darderi beat Chilean Alejandro Tabilo 6-3, 7-6 (5) to advance to the second round of the Cincinnati Masters at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.
It is Darderi’s first hard-court win on the ATP Tour as he moves through to face a fellow Italian in Flavio Cobolli next.
Cincinnati Masters 1000, other first-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 6.795.555, most recent results first):
- Brandon Holt vs. Arthur Fils
 - 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
 - Fabian Marozsan vs. Corentin Moutet
 - Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Matteo Arnaldi
 - Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Sebastian Korda
 - Max Purcell vs. Tomas Machac
 - Taylor Fritz vs. Brandon Nakashima
 - Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
 - Lorenzo Musetti vs. Nicolas Jarry
 - Ben Shelton vs. Reilly Opelka
 - Jordan Thompson vs. Ugo Humbert
 - Alex Michelsen vs. Tallon Griekspoor
 - Jiri Lehecka vs. Mariano Navone
 - Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Frances Tiafoe: tuesday
 - Marcos Giron vs. Sebastian Baez: tuesday
 - Zhizhen Zhang beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
 - Karen Khachanov beat Francisco Cerundolo: 6-0, 6-3
 - Flavio Cobolli beat Tommy Paul (10): 6-2, 4-6, 7-5