Barcelona Open: Ruusuvuori crushes Bublik to reach second round; plays Tiafoe next

Emil Ruusuvuori beat Alexander Bublik 6-0, 6-3 on Monday and will face No 5 seed Frances Tiafoe in the next round

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April 17, 2023

Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell •Second round • completed

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A. BublikvsE. Ruusuvuori

Finn Emil Ruusuvuori moved into the second round of the Barcelona Open by winning against Kazakh Alexander Bublik 6-0, 6-3 at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on Monday.

Ruusuvuori, ranked No 40, will face No 5 seed Frances Tiafoe next.

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

Pedro Cachin vs. Gijs Brouwer
Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Emilio Gomez
Lorenzo Giustino vs. Alexander Shevchenko
Diego Schwartzman vs. Yibing Wu
David Goffin vs. Feliciano López
Daniel Rincon vs. Jason Kubler
Matteo Arnaldi vs. Jaume Munar
Francesco Passaro vs. Fernando Verdasco
Pedro Martinez vs. Jozef Kovalik

Pavel Kotov vs. Oleksii Krutykh
Marco Trungelliti vs. Nicolas Jarry
Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Pablo Andujar
Ilya Ivashka vs. Nuno Borges: monday
Ben Shelton beat Mackenzie McDonald: 7-5, 6-4
Bernabe Zapata Miralles beat Attila Balazs: 6-2, 6-2

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Barcelona Open: Ruusuvuori crushes Bublik to reach second round; plays Tiafoe next

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