In-form American Tiafoe makes confident start at Queen’s

American Frances Tiafoe, the No 4 seed, beat Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp 6-2, 6-4 to reach the second round of the cinch Championships at Queen’s Club in London on Tuesday.

Tiafoe, ranked No 10 and the winner of last week’s event in Stuttgart, will play American Sebastian Korda next.

London ATP500, other first-round results (Queen’s Club, grass, EUR 2.195.175, most recent results first):

• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
• Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Taylor Fritz
• Alex De Minaur vs. Andy Murray
• Jordan Thompson beat Alexei Popyrin (LL): 6-4, 6-4
• Carlos Alcaraz vs. Arthur Rinderknech: tuesday
• Adrian Mannarino beat Liam Broady (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Jiri Lehecka beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Holger Rune (2) beat Maxime Cressy: 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3)
• Francisco Cerundolo (8) beat Tommy Paul (Q): 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4
• Lorenzo Musetti (6) beat Jan Choinski (WC): 6-4, 6-2
• Diego Schwartzman beat Mackenzie McDonald (Q): 6-2, 6-4
• Sebastian Korda beat Daniel Evans: 6-4, 7-5
• Ben Shelton beat J.J. Wolf (LL): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2)
• Cameron Norrie (5) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-4, 7-6 (5)
• Ryan Peniston (WC) beat Ugo Humbert: 6-4, 6-2