Winston-Salem Open: Cerundolo battles past Safiullin to reach second round

Argentinian Juan Manuel Cerundolo beat Russian Roman Safiullin 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Winston-Salem Open at Wake Forest Tennis Complex.

Cerundolo, ranked No 103, will play No 10 seed Yannick Hanfmann next.

Winston-Salem ATP250, other first-round results (Wake Forest Tennis Complex, hard, USD 760.930, most recent results first):

• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Dominic Thiem
• Luca Van Assche vs. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski
• Michael Mmoh vs. Darian King
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Constant Lestienne
• Pavel Kotov vs. Mitchell Krueger
• Illya Marchenko vs. Rinky Hijikata
• Nuno Borges vs. Jack Draper
• Max Purcell vs. Marco Cecchinato
• Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Quentin Halys
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Jason Kubler
• Alex Michelsen vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
• Radu Albot vs. Daniel Elahi Galan
• Benjamin Bonzi beat Alexandre Muller: 6-4, 6-4
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Ilya Ivashka: 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2
• Marc-Andrea Huesler beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-3, 4-6, 4-0 ret.