Mexican Open: Lajovic reaches second round, meets Ruud next

Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic advanced to the second round of the Mexican Open by beating Mexican wildcard Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez 6-2, 6-2 at the Princess Mundo Imperial Resort in Acapulco on Tuesday.

Lajovic, ranked No 55, will play Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 6 seed, next.

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Acapulco ATP 500, other first-round matches (Princess Mundo Imperial Resort, hard, USD 2206,080):

• Aleksandar Kovacevic (Q) beat Jordan Thompson: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
• Casper Ruud beat Christopher Eubanks: 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3
• Holger Rune (2) beat Michael Mmoh (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Dominik Koepfer beat Terence Atmane (Q): 6-4, 4-6, 6-0
• Frances Tiafoe (8) beat Max Purcell: 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (5) beat Roman Safiullin: 6-3, 6-4
• Flavio Cobolli (Q) beat Felix Auger-Aliassime: 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Matteo Arnaldi beat Taylor Fritz (4): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Alex De Minaur (3) beat Taro Daniel: 6-2, 6-1
• Yoshihito Nishioka (LL) beat Nuno Borges: 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Sebastian Ofner beat Ernesto Escobedo (WC): 6-7 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Ben Shelton beat Daniel Evans: 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5)
• Jack Draper beat Tommy Paul (7): 6-0, 6-4
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Diego Schwartzman (WC): 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
• Alexander Zverev vs. Daniel Altmaier