Citi Open: Nakashima beats Atlanta finalist Vukic to reach second round

American Brandon Nakashima reached the second round of the Citi Open by winning against Australian Aleksandar Vukic 7-6 (5), 7-6 (9) at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington on Tuesday.

Vukic was coming off a runner-up finish in Atlanta over the weekend where he lost to top-ranked American Taylor Fritz.

Nakashima, ranked No 70, will play No 15 seed Andy Murray next.

Washington ATP500, other first-round matches (Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 2,013,940):

• Sho Shimabukuro (LL) beat Lloyd Harris: 6-4, 6-3
• Thanasi Kokkinakis beat Taro Daniel: 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Gael Monfils (WC) beat Bjorn Fratangelo (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Radu Albot beat Marcos Giron: 6-3, 5-7, 7-5
• 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
• Kevin Anderson vs. Jordan Thompson
• Zachary Svajda vs. Max Purcell

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