Winston-Salem Open: Hijikata advances to second round
Rinky Hijikata beat Illya Marchenko 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Monday evening. He’ll play top seed Borna Coric in the next round
Australian Rinky Hijikata reached the second round of the Winston-Salem Open by beating Ukrainian qualifier Illya Marchenko 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 at Wake Forest Tennis Complex on Monday evening.
Hijikata, ranked No 111, will play top seed Borna Coric 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: monday
- Mitchell Krueger (Q) beat Pavel Kotov: 6-3, 6-4
- Jack Draper beat Nuno Borges: 6-3, 6-1
- Max Purcell beat Marco Cecchinato: 6-4, 6-1
- Facundo Diaz Acosta beat Quentin Halys: 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
- 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.
