Winston-Salem Open: Purcell reaches second round

Australian Max Purcell won against Italian Marco Cecchinato 6-4, 6-1 to reach the second round of the Winston-Salem Open at Wake Forest Tennis Complex on Monday evening.

Purcell, ranked No 47, will play No 16 seed Emil Ruusuvuori next.

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

• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Omni Kumar
• 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
• Jack Draper beat Nuno Borges: 6-3, 6-1
• Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Quentin Halys: monday
• Brandon Nakashima beat Jason Kubler: 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (3)
• Alex Michelsen (WC) beat Juan Pablo Varillas: 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-0
• 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.