Rotterdam Open: Raonic moves into second round

Canadian Milos Raonic reached the second round of the Rotterdam Open by winning against Dutch wildcard Jesper De Jong 7-6 (5), 6-4 at the Rotterdam Ahoy on Monday evening.

The former world No 3 last played on tour in January but had to retire from his Australian Open first-round match against Alex de Minaur.

Raonic, ranked No 309, will face the winner of the match between Croat Borna Coric and Kazakh Alexander Bublik, the No 8 seed, next.

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Rotterdam ATP 500, other first-round results (Rotterdam Ahoy, hard, EUR 2.134.985, most recent results first):

• Roman Safiullin vs. Holger Rune
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Lorenzo Sonego
• Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Ugo Humbert
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Gael Monfils
• Jannik Sinner vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Jiri Lehecka
• Zizou Bergs vs. Andrey Rublev
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Alex De Minaur vs. Sebastian Korda
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Marton Fucsovics
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Alexander Shevchenko
• Borna Coric vs. Alexander Bublik
• Maxime Cressy vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Tallon Griekspoor vs. Lorenzo Musetti
• David Goffin (Q) beat Dino Prizmic (WC): 6-4, 6-7 (12), 6-1