Los Cabos Open: Purcell closes the day beating Laaksonen

Australian qualifier Max Purcell advanced to the second round of the Los Cabos Open by edging out Swiss Henri Laaksonen 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 at the Cabo del Mar Sports Center on Tuesday night.

Purcell, ranked No 234, will face the winner of the match between Japanese qualifier Kaichi Uchida and American Brandon Nakashima, the No 6 seed, next.

Los Cabos ATP 250, other first-round matches (Cabo del Mar Sports Center, hard, USD 920.625, most recent results first):

• Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Fernando Verdasco : Tuesday
• Gonzalo Villanueva vs. Steve Johnson : Tuesday
• Radu Albot vs. Feliciano López : Tuesday
• Kaichi Uchida vs. Brandon Nakashima : Tuesday
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Jordan Thompson : Tuesday
• Juan Alejandro Hernandez vs. John Millman : Tuesday
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Jason Kubler : Tuesday
• Facundo Bagnis vs. Ernesto Escobedo : Tuesday
• Chun-Hsin Tseng beat Nick Chappell (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Rinky Hijikata (Q) beat Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez (WC): 6-3, 4-0 ret.
• Ricardas Berankis beat Quentin Halys (9): 7-6 (1), 7-5