Croatia Open: Popyrin beats Bonzi to reach second round

Australian Alexei Popyrin won against Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi 6-4, 7-5 to advance to the second round of the Croatia Open at the ITC Stella Maris in Umag.

Popyrin, ranked No 90, will play No 3 seed Sebastian Ofner next.

Umag ATP250, other first-round results (ITC Stella Maris, clay, EUR 562.815, most recent results first):

• Stan Wawrinka vs. Filip Misolic
• Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Federico Coria
• Marco Cecchinato vs. Alexander Shevchenko
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Juan Manuel Cerundolo
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Jaume Munar
• Zsombor Piros vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Jesper De Jong vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Marin Čilić vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Taro Daniel vs. Martin Landaluce
• Dominic Thiem vs. Facundo Bagnis: monday
• Dino Prizmic (WC) beat Duje Ajdukovic (WC): 6-1, 6-2