Albot crushes 45 winners to edge American Giron in Citi Open first round

Radu Albot edged out American Marcos Giron 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 to move into the second round of the Citi Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington on Monday night.

It was an excellent display of attacking tennis from both men, with Albot striking 45 winners, and Giron plundering 36 of his own. The Moldovan was brilliant at the net for the majority of the match, winning more than twice as many points with volleys than Giron.

Albot, ranked No 97, will face No 16 seed J.J. Wolf next.

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Washington ATP500, other first-round results (Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 2.013.940, most recent results first):

• Kevin Anderson vs. Jordan Thompson
• Lloyd Harris vs. Kei Nishikori
• Aleksandar Vukic vs. Brandon Nakashima
• Zachary Svajda vs. Max Purcell
• Taro Daniel vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
• Gael Monfils vs. Bjorn Fratangelo: tuesday
• Gregoire Barrere beat Shintaro Mochizuki (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-3
• Mackenzie McDonald beat Diego Schwartzman: 6-3, 6-3
• Liam Broady beat Corentin Moutet: 7-6, 6-4
• Aslan Karatsev beat Kiranpal Pannu (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Michael Mmoh beat Bradley Klahn (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Yosuke Watanuki beat Yibing Wu: 1-4 ret.
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Maxime Cressy: 6-3, 7-6 (8)
• Juncheng Shang (Q) beat Emilio Gomez: 6-3, 6-3
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Constant Lestienne: 6-4, 6-4