Dubai Open: Sonego advances to second round, faces Medvedev next

Italian Lorenzo Sonego reached the second round of the Dubai Open by defeating Indian wildcard Sumit Nagal 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Tuesday evening.

Sonego, ranked No 48, will face Russian Daniil Medvedev, the top seed, next.

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

• Daniil Medvedev beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-3, 7-5
• Jakub Mensik beat Borna Coric: 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7)
• 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