Chengdu Open: Vukic beats Coric in first round
The Australian will face No 4 seed Pedro Martinez Portero in the next round
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Australian Aleksandar Vukic edged out Croat Borna Coric 3-6, 7-6 (9), 6-4 to move into the second round of the Chengdu Open at the Sichuan International Tennis Center on Thursday.
The Australian notably saved two match points in the second set tiebreaker to later claim the win.
Vukic, ranked No 92, will face No 4 seed Pedro Martinez Portero next.
Chengdu ATP 250, other first-round results (Sichuan International Tennis Center, hard, USD 1.171.655, most recent results first):
- Roman Safiullin vs. Fabio Fognini
- Alexandre Muller vs. Federico Agustin Gomez
- Terence Atmane vs. Adrian Mannarino
- Pavel Kotov vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Shintaro Mochizuki
- Juncheng Shang vs. Kei Nishikori
- Alibek Kachmazov (Q) beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-4, 7-6 (7)
- Yi Zhou (WC) beat Chun-Hsin Tseng: 2-6, 6-1, 3-1 ret.
- Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (7) beat Fajing Sun (WC): 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-4
- Taro Daniel beat Lorenzo Sonego (6): 6-4, 7-5
- Lukas Klein beat Adam Walton: 7-6 (3), 6-4
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