Banja Luka Open: Barrere moves into second round

Frenchman Gregoire Barrere, the No 8 seed, won against Serb wildcard Hamad Medjedovic 7-6 (6), 7-5 to move into the second round of the Banja Luka Open at the Tennis Klub Mladost on Wednesday.

Barrere, ranked No 57, will play Dusan Lajovic next.

Banja Luka ATP250, other first-round results (Tennis Klub Mladost, clay, EUR 562.815, most recent results first):

• Gael Monfils vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Hugo Gaston: wednesday
• Damir Dzumhur (WC) beat Liam Broady (LL): 6-3, 6-0
• Radu Albot (Q) beat Federico Coria: 6-4 ret.
• Dusan Lajovic beat Filip Krajinovic: 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
• Richard Gasquet (7) beat Dino Prizmic (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Laslo Djere beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 6-2
• Abedallah Shelbayh (Q) beat Elias Ymer (Q): 6-1, 7-5
• Alex Molcan beat Taro Daniel: 3-6, 7-5, 6-1
• Luca Van Assche beat Stan Wawrinka: 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Alexei Popyrin beat Tallon Griekspoor (5): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4)