Hamburg Open: Wildcard Molleker out in first round
Alexander Shevchenko edged out Rudolf Molleker 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Monday evening and will play the winner of the match between No 7 seed Luciano Darderi and Lorenzo Sonego in the next round

Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko edged out German wildcard Rudolf Molleker 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Hamburg Open at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center on Monday evening.
Shevchenko, ranked No 56, will play the winner of the match between No 7 seed Luciano Darderi and Lorenzo Sonego next.
Hamburg ATP 500, other first-round matches (Rothenbaum Tennis Center, clay, EUR 1.891.995, most recent results first):
- Francisco Cerundolo (4) beat Francisco Comesana (LL): 7-5, 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 (Q) 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
- Pedro Martinez vs. Matteo Arnaldi