Mexican Open: Tsitsipas sees off Safiullin threat to make second round
Stefanos Tsitsipas won against Roman Safiullin 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday night and will play Italian qualifier Flavio Cobolli in the next round
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Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 5 seed, advanced to the second round of the Mexican Open by beating Russian Roman Safiullin 6-3, 6-4 at the Princess Mundo Imperial Resort in Acapulco on Tuesday night.
Tsitsipas, ranked No 12, will face Italian qualifier Flavio Cobolli 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
- Casper Ruud vs. Christopher Eubanks
- Michael Mmoh vs. Holger Rune
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Jordan Thompson
- Terence Atmane vs. Dominik Koepfer: wednesday
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Max Purcell: wednesday
- Flavio Cobolli 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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