Croatia Open: Monteiro moves into second round

Brazilian Thiago Monteiro moved into the second round of the Croatia Open by edging out No 7 seed Tomas Machac 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the ITC Stella Maris in Umag on Monday afternoon.

Monteiro, ranked No 79, will face Hungarian Fabian Marozsan next.

Umag ATP 250, other first-round results (ITC Stella Maris, clay, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):

• Luca Van Assche vs. Fabio Fognini
• Luciano Darderi vs. Duje Ajdukovic
• Mili Poljicak vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Enzo Couacaud vs. Matej Dodig
• Filip Misolic vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Mariano Navone vs. Flavio Cobolli: monday
• Marco Trungelliti vs. Guido Andreozzi: monday
• Jakub Mensik beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-2
• Camilo Ugo Carabelli beat Luka Mikrut (WC): 6-2, 7-5
• Fabian Marozsan beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8)
• Alexandre Muller beat Matteo Arnaldi (8): 7-6 (8), 6-4