Dubai Open: Defending champion Medvedev reaches second round on return to tour

Russian Daniil Medvedev, the top seed, moved into the second round of the Dubai Open by winning against Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko 6-3, 7-5 at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Tuesday evening.

Medvedev, ranked No 4, will play the winner of the match between Indian wildcard Sumit Nagal and Italian Lorenzo Sonego next.

It was Medvedev’s first match on tour since losing in the Australian Open final to Jannik Sinner, missing out Doha and Rotterdam – both events where he was defending champion, as he is here. However, he has never yet successfully defended a title on tour.

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Dubai ATP 500, other first-round results (Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 2.941.785, most recent results first):

• Sumit Nagal vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Jakub Mensik vs. Borna Coric: tuesday
• Karen Khachanov (4) beat Luca Van Assche (LL): 6-2, 6-3
• Christopher O’Connell beat Maximilian Marterer (Q): 6-2, 6-4
• Arthur Cazaux (Q) beat Lorenzo Musetti: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Jiri Lehecka beat Marton Fucsovics (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 7-5
• Ugo Humbert (5) beat Gael Monfils (WC): 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (8) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
• Hubert Hurkacz (3) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6)
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Abdullah Shelbayh (WC): 7-5, 2-0 ret.
• Andrey Rublev (2) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4
• Alexander Bublik (7) beat Tomas Machac (Q): 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Andy Murray beat Denis Shapovalov: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Botic van de Zandschulp beat Adrian Mannarino (6): 7-6 (3), 7-5
• Sebastian Korda beat Pavel Kotov: 6-0, 6-2