Hamburg Open: Sixth seed Arnaldi knocked out in first round
Pedro Martinez won against Matteo Arnaldi 7-6 (4), 6-1 on Monday evening and will play French qualifier Ugo Blanchet in the next round
Matteo Arnaldi in Madrid (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Spaniard Pedro Martinez reached the second round of the Hamburg Open by beating Italian Matteo Arnaldi, the No 6 seed, 7-6 (4), 6-1 at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center on Monday evening.
Martinez, ranked No 49, will face French qualifier Ugo Blanchet next.
Hamburg ATP 500, other first-round matches (Rothenbaum Tennis Center, clay, EUR 1,891,995):
- Francisco Cerundolo (4) beat Francisco Comesana (LL): 7-5, 6-4
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Rudolf Molleker (WC): 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Laslo Djere beat Zizou Bergs: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Maximilian Marterer (WC) beat SoonWoo Kwon: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-5
- Ugo Blanchet beat Alexei Popyrin: 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2
- Flavio Cobolli beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3
- Alexander Zverev vs. Jesper De Jong
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Holger Rune
- Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Hugo Gaston
- Dominik Koepfer vs. Sebastian Baez
- Marco Trungelliti vs. Sebastian Ofner
- Thiago Seyboth Wild vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Arthur Fils vs. Jaume Munar
- Luciano Darderi vs. Lorenzo Sonego
