Mexican Open: Shelton overcomes poor start to defeat Evans

American Ben Shelton edged out Daniel Evans 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5) to move into the second round of the Mexican Open at the Princess Mundo Imperial Resort in Acapulco on Tuesday night.

Shelton, ranked No 17, will face the winner of the match between Italian Matteo Arnaldi and American Taylor Fritz, the No 4 seed, next.

Acapulco ATP 500, other first-round results (Princess Mundo Imperial Resort, hard, USD 2.206.080, most recent results first):

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