Tel Aviv Open: Pospisil through to second round

Canadian lucky loser Vasek Pospisil reached the second round of the Tel Aviv Open by edging out Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor, the No 8 seed, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5 at Expo Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening.

Pospisil, ranked No 149, will play the winner of the match between qualifier Edan Leshem and wildcard Yshai Oliel next.

Tel Aviv ATP 250, other first-round results (Expo Tel Aviv, USD 1.019.855, most recent results first):

• Adrian Mannarino vs. Constant Lestienne
• Thiago Monteiro vs. Pablo Andujar
• Edan Leshem vs. Yshai Oliel
• Sebastian Korda beat Cem Ilkel (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat J.J. Wolf: 6-3, 6-2
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Aslan Karatsev (6): 6-2, 6-7, 6-4
• Arthur Rinderknech beat Marius Copil (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3
• Botic van de Zandschulp (5) beat João Sousa: 6-2, 6-3
• Liam Broady (Q) beat Hamad Medjedovic (WC): 7-5, 6-3
• Dominic Thiem (WC) beat Laslo Djere: 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Roman Safiullin beat Hugo Grenier: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2