Barcelona Open: Hardt beats Ladnaluce to make second round

Dominican qualifier Nick Hardt advanced to the second round of the Barcelona Open by beating Spanish wildcard Martin Landaluce 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona.

Hardt, ranked No 229, will face No 13 seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry next.

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

• Jaume Munar vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Dusan Lajovic
• Tomas Machac vs. Juncheng Shang
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Rafael Nadal
• Hugo Grenier vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Luca Van Assche vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Alexandre Muller vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
• Pavel Kotov vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Harold Mayot vs. Pedro Cachin: monday
• 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