Winston-Salem Open: Home hope Michelsen overcomes Varillas to reach second round

American wildcard Alex Michelsen reached the second round of the Winston-Salem Open by beating Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-0 at Wake Forest Tennis Complex.

Michelsen, ranked No 138, will face No 15 seed Sebastian Ofner 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
• Daniel Elahi Galan beat Radu Albot: 6-1, 7-5
• Benjamin Bonzi beat Alexandre Muller: 6-4, 6-4
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo beat Roman Safiullin: 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3
• 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.