Hangzhou Open: Bellucci into second round
Mattia Bellucci defeated Aslan Karatsev 6-4, 6-0 on Thursday and will play the winner of the match between Chinese Zhizhen Zhang, the No 6 seed, and Kazakh qualifier Denis Yevseyev in the next round
Mattia Bellucci of Italy returns a ball to Dennis Novak of Austria during their second round match at the ATP Challenger Pekao Open tennis tournament in Szczecin, Poland, 15 September 2022. || 241541_0004 tennis
Italian Mattia Bellucci won against Russian Aslan Karatsev 6-4, 6-0 to reach the second round of the Hangzhou Open at the Hengqin International Tennis Center on Thursday.
Bellucci, ranked No 108, will face the winner of the match between Chinese Zhizhen Zhang, the No 6 seed, and Kazakh qualifier Denis Yevseyev next.
Hangzhou ATP 250, other first-round results (Hengqin International Tennis Center, hard, USD 1.000.630, most recent results first):
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Denis Yevseyev
- Chak Lam Coleman Wong (Q) beat Yibing Wu (WC): 6-3 ret.
- Yasutaka Uchiyama (Q) beat James McCabe (LL): 6-4, 6-4
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Corentin Moutet: 7-6 (6), 6-1
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Marco Trungelliti (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Yunchaokete Bu (WC) beat Hugo Gaston: 7-5, 6-3
- Rinky Hijikata beat Damir Dzumhur: 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2
- Yoshihito Nishioka (8) beat Maximilian Marterer: 6-4, 6-2
- Marin Cilic (WC) beat Zachary Svajda: 5-7, 6-3, 6-0
- Mikhail Kukushkin beat Luciano Darderi (5): 6-3, 6-4
- Fabian Marozsan (7) beat Luca Nardi: 6-0, 6-2
