Swiss Indoors: Tsitsipas beats Cerundolo in third set tiebreak

Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 3 seed, moved into the second round of the Swiss Indoors by edging out Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4) at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel on Tuesday.

Tsitsipas, ranked No 11, will play Dutch qualifier Botic van de Zandschulp next.

Basel ATP 500, other first-round matches (St. Jakobshalle., hard, EUR 2,385,100):

• Holger Rune (4) beat Nicolas Jarry: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Alejandro Tabilo beat Marin Cilic: 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2)
• Ben Shelton (6) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-3, 6-4
• Botic van de Zandschulp beat Alexander Bublik: 3-6, 6-4, 4-0 ret.
• Dominic Stricker (WC) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-4, 6-4
• Denis Shapovalov (WC) beat Juncheng Shang: 6-1, 6-4
• Andrey Rublev (1) beat Nuno Borges: 6-3, 6-2
• Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard beat James Duckworth (Q): 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Arthur Fils (7) beat Daniel Altmaier (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-3
• David Goffin (LL) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2
• Ugo Humbert (5) beat Jerome Kym (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-5
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Casper Ruud
• Pedro Martinez Portero vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Sebastian Baez

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