Miami Masters: Nishikori beaten by Ofner on return to Tour
Sebastian Ofner defeated Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday evening and will play No 20 seed Francisco Cerundolo in the next round
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Japan’s Kei Nishikori lost on his return to the ATP Tour after eight months out as he was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by Austrian Sebastian Ofner in the first round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday evening.
The former world No 4, whose career has been beset by injury problems, was well below his best but performed pretty well on his return to action.
Ofner, ranked No 40, recorded his first Miami win. He will face No 20 seed Francisco Cerundolo next.
Miami Masters 1000, other first-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 10.404.205, most recent results first):
- Dusan Lajovic vs. Gael Monfils
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Alexander Shevchenko
- Emilio Nava vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
- Martin Landaluce vs. Jaume Munar
- Roman Safiullin vs. Diego Schwartzman
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Daniel Evans
- Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Fabian Marozsan
- Alexandre Muller vs. SoonWoo Kwon
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Yannick Hanfmann
- Alejandro Tabilo vs. Brandon Nakashima: thursday
- Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Adam Walton (Q): 7-5, 6-4
- Daniel Altmaier beat Harold Mayot (Q): 6-2, 7-5
- Laslo Djere beat Chak Lam Coleman Wong (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Dominik Koepfer beat Marcos Giron: 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Alex Michelsen beat Lukas Klein (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Arthur Fils: 6-3, 6-4
- Martin Damm (WC) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3)
- Juncheng Shang (WC) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (5)
- Thiago Seyboth Wild (Q) beat Nuno Borges: 6-4, 7-5
- Andy Murray beat Matteo Berrettini: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Andrea Vavassori (Q) beat Pedro Cachin: 6-2, 6-2
- Marton Fucsovics beat Max Purcell: 6-2, 6-1
- Tomas Machac beat Darwin Blanch (WC): 6-4, 6-2
- Flavio Cobolli beat Yoshihito Nishioka (LL): 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Christopher O’Connell beat Vit Kopriva (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Jack Draper beat Taro Daniel: 6-3, 6-2
- Denis Shapovalov beat Luciano Darderi: 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-4
- Botic van de Zandschulp beat Rinky Hijikata: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Luca Van Assche beat Pavel Kotov: 6-3, 7-5
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