Mexican Open: Ruud gets past Eubanks to reach second round

Norway’s Casper Ruud, the No 6 seed, survived a tough battle against American Chris Eubanks to reach the second round of the Mexican Open at the Princess Mundo Imperial Resort in Acapulco on Tuesday.

Ruud, the runner-up in Los Cabos over the weekend, needed two hours and 14 minutes to beat Eubanks 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3 and reach the last 16.

The Norwegian, ranked No 11, will play the winner of the match between Mexican wildcard Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez and Serb Dusan Lajovic next.

Acapulco ATP 500, other first-round matches (Princess Mundo Imperial Resort, hard, USD 2,206,080)

• Holger Rune (2) beat Michael Mmoh (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Dominik Koepfer beat Terence Atmane (Q): 6-4, 4-6, 6-0
• Frances Tiafoe (8) beat Max Purcell: 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (5) beat Roman Safiullin: 6-3, 6-4
• Flavio Cobolli (Q) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime: 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Taylor Fritz (4): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Alex De Minaur (3) beat Taro Daniel: 6-2, 6-1
• Yoshihito Nishioka (LL) beat Nuno Borges: 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Sebastian Ofner beat Ernesto Escobedo (WC): 6-7 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Ben Shelton beat Daniel Evans: 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5)
• Jack Draper beat Tommy Paul (7): 6-0, 6-4
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Diego Schwartzman (WC): 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
• Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Alexander Zverev vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Jordan Thompson