Barcelona Open: Passaro moves into second round

Italian Francesco Passaro advanced to the second round of the Barcelona Open by winning against Spanish wildcard Fernando Verdasco 6-1, 6-1 at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on Tuesday.

Passaro, ranked No 125, will face No 15 seed Francisco Cerundolo next.

Barcelona ATP500, other first-round results (Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, clay, EUR 2.722.480, most recent results first):

• Daniel Rincon vs. Jason Kubler
• Pedro Cachin vs. Gijs Brouwer
• David Goffin vs. Feliciano López
• Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Emilio Gomez
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Jaume Munar
• Lorenzo Giustino vs. Alexander Shevchenko: tuesday
• Diego Schwartzman vs. Yibing Wu: tuesday
• Jozef Kovalik (Q) beat Pedro Martinez: 7-5, 2-6, 7-5
• Pavel Kotov (Q) beat Oleksii Krutykh (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-1
• Nicolas Jarry beat Marco Trungelliti (Q): 7-5, 6-3
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Pablo Andujar (WC): 6-2, 7-5
• Nuno Borges beat Ilya Ivashka: 6-2, 6-3
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Alexander Bublik: 6-0, 6-3
• Ben Shelton beat Mackenzie McDonald: 7-5, 6-4
• Bernabe Zapata Miralles beat Attila Balazs: 6-2, 6-2