Almaty Open: Coric makes second round

Croat Borna Coric moved into the second round of the Almaty Open by beating Hungarian Fabian Marozsan, the No 7 seed, 6-4, 7-6 (4) at Almaty Arena on Monday.

Coric, ranked No 96, will face the winner of the match between Australian Christopher O’Connell and Canadian Gabriel Diallo next.

Almaty ATP 250, other first-round results (Almaty Arena, hard, USD 1.036.700, most recent results first):

• Timofey Skatov vs. Tomas Machac
• James Duckworth vs. Aleksandar Vukic
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Aslan Karatsev
• Taro Daniel vs. Daniel Evans
• Benjamin Hassan vs. Beibit Zhukayev
• Otto Virtanen vs. Fabio Fognini
• Christopher O’Connell vs. Gabriel Diallo
• Roman Safiullin vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Maximilian Marterer beat Damir Dzumhur: 7-5, 6-4
• Justin Engel (WC) beat Chak Lam Coleman Wong: 7-5, 6-4