Barcelona Open: Altmaier books spot in second round

German Daniel Altmaier won against Australian Alexei Popyrin 6-3, 7-6 (4) to advance to the second round of the Barcelona Open at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on Tuesday.

Altmaier, ranked No 66, will face No 16 seed Arthur Fils next.

Barcelona ATP 500, other first-round results (Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, clay, EUR 2.782.960, most recent results first):

• Flavio Cobolli vs. Rafael Nadal: tuesday
• Tomas Machac beat Juncheng Shang (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Jaume Munar beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 6-3, 6-1
• Dusan Lajovic beat Diego Schwartzman (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Roberto Carballes Baena beat Hugo Grenier (LL): 6-2, 6-4
• Luca Van Assche beat Zhizhen Zhang: 7-5, 6-2
• Alexandre Muller beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas (WC): 7-6 (4), 6-0
• Sebastian Ofner beat Pavel Kotov: 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
• Nick Hardt (Q) beat Martin Landaluce (WC): 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Harold Mayot (Q) beat Pedro Cachin: 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-3
• Marco Trungelliti (Q) beat Duje Ajdukovic (Q): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Arthur Cazaux: 5-5 ret.
• Roberto Bautista Agut (WC) beat Roman Safiullin: 6-3, 7-6 (8)
• Brandon Nakashima beat Daniel Evans: 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Facundo Diaz Acosta beat Daniel Rincon (WC): 6-1, 6-4