Barcelona Open: Ofner battles past Kotov to reach second round
Sebastian Ofner defeated Pavel Kotov 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 on Monday evening and will play No 5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the next round
Sebastian Ofner at Roland-Garros in 2023 (Michael Baucher/Panoramic)
Austrian Sebastian Ofner advanced to the second round of the Barcelona Open by beating Russian Pavel Kotov 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona.
Ofner, ranked No 43, will face No 5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas 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
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Tomas Machac vs. Juncheng Shang
- Jaume Munar vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Hugo Grenier vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Luca Van Assche vs. Zhizhen Zhang
- Alexandre Muller beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas (WC): 7-6 (4), 6-0
- 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
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