Swiss Indoors: Auger-Aliassime books spot in second round

Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 8 seed, defeated Argentinian Sebastian Baez 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Swiss Indoors at the St. Jakobshalle. in Basel on Wednesday.

Auger-Aliassime, ranked No 19, will play Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard next.

Basel ATP 500, other first-round results (St. Jakobshalle., hard, EUR 2.385.100, most recent results first):

• Adrian Mannarino vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Casper Ruud
• Pedro Martinez Portero vs. Jiri Lehecka: wednesday
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (3) beat Francisco Cerundolo: 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4)
• Holger Rune (4) beat Nicolas Jarry: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Alejandro Tabilo beat Marin Cilic: 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2)
• Ben Shelton (6) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-3, 6-4
• Botic van de Zandschulp (Q) beat Alexander Bublik: 3-6, 6-4, 4-0 ret.
• Dominic Stricker (WC) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-4, 6-4
• Denis Shapovalov (WC) beat Juncheng Shang: 6-1, 6-4
• Andrey Rublev (1) beat Nuno Borges: 6-3, 6-2
• Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard beat James Duckworth (Q): 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Arthur Fils (7) beat Daniel Altmaier (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-3
• David Goffin (LL) beat Matteo Arnaldi: 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2
• Ugo Humbert (5) beat Jerome Kym (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-5