Mexican Open: Tiafoe comes back from slow start to defeat Purcell
Frances Tiafoe won against Max Purcell 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 on Tuesday night. He’ll play the winner of the match between French qualifier Terence Atmane and German Dominik Koepfer in the next round
American Frances Tiafoe, the No 8 seed, defeated Australian Max Purcell 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 to reach the second round of the Mexican Open at the Princess Mundo Imperial Resort in Acapulco on Tuesday night.
Tiafoe, ranked No 16, will play the winner of the match between French qualifier Terence Atmane and German Dominik Koepfer next.
Acapulco ATP 500, other first-round results (Princess Mundo Imperial Resort, hard, USD 2.206.080, most recent results first):
- Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Alexander Zverev vs. Daniel Altmaier
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Jordan Thompson
- Casper Ruud vs. Christopher Eubanks
- Michael Mmoh vs. Holger Rune: wednesday
- Terence Atmane vs. Dominik Koepfer: wednesday
- 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
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