Citi Open: Van Assche advances to second round to face top seed Rublev
Van Assche won against compatriot Arthur Cazaux 6-4, 6-3 on Tuesday
Luca van Assche at the 2024 Australian Open (Icon SMI/Panoramic)
Luca Van Assche won against Arthur Cazaux 6-4, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Citi Open at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington on Tuesday.
Van Assche, ranked No 118, will play top seed Andrey Rublev next.
Washington ATP 500, other first-round matches (William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, hard, USD 2,100,230):
- Mitchell Krueger (Q) beat Luca Nardi: 7-6 (3), 4-1 ret.
- Reilly Opelka (WC) beat James Duckworth: 6-7 (12), 7-5, 6-4
- David Goffin beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli: 6-2, 7-5
- Denis Shapovalov (WC) beat Roberto Bautista Agut: 6-1, 6-4
- Seong-Chan Hong (Q) beat Adam Walton: 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4)
- Mattia Bellucci (Q) beat Mackenzie McDonald: 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3)
- Emil Ruusuvuori beat Borna Coric: 6-7 (4), 7-6 (8), 6-4
- Daniel Elahi Galan beat Maxime Cressy (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Cristian Garin beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 6-2
- Christopher O’Connell beat Harold Mayot: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- J.J. Wolf (WC) beat Zachary Svajda (LL): 6-4, 7-5
- Radu Albot vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
- Max Purcell vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- Juncheng Shang vs. Elias Ymer
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