Borges wins through to face top seed Sinner in Sofia
Nuno Borges won against Mirza Basic 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday and will face top seed Jannik Sinner in the next round
Sept 7, 2022; Flushing, NY, USA; Jannik Sinner of Italy after a 4th set winner to Carlos Alcaraz of Spain on day ten of the 2022 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Portuguese Nuno Borges advanced to the second round of the Sofia Open by winning against Bosnian lucky loser Mirza Basic 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 at the Arena Armeec Sofia on Tuesday.
Borges, ranked No 93, will face top seed Jannik Sinner next.
Sofia ATP 250, other first-round results (Arena Armeec Sofia, EUR 597.900, most recent results first):
- Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Geoffrey Blancaneaux
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
- Fernando Verdasco vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Fabio Fognini
- Ugo Humbert vs. Dimitar Kuzmanov: tuesday
- Oscar Otte (8) beat Dragos Nicolae Madaras (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Holger Rune (5) beat Tim van Rijthoven: 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6)
- Ilya Ivashka beat Mikael Ymer: 7-6 (8), 4-6, 7-5
- Alexandar Lazarov (WC) beat Jiri Lehecka: 7-5, 6-3
- Kamil Majchrzak beat Ricardas Berankis: 7-5, 6-2
