Alert: Alcaraz tops Draper to reach second round on Basel debut
Carlos Alcaraz edged out Jack Draper 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 on Monday evening. He’ll play the winner of the match between Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp and Frenchman Adrian Mannarino in the next round
Carlos Alcaraz, 2022 | © Antoine Couvercelle / Panoramic
Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the top seed, edged out Jack Draper 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 to reach the second round of the Swiss Indoors at the Halle Saint-Jacques in Basel on Monday evening.
Alcaraz, ranked No 1, will face the winner of the match between Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp and Frenchman Adrian Mannarino next.
Alcaraz improves to 53-11 on the season, as he enters his seventh week atop the ATP’s rankings.
Basle ATP 500, other first-round results (Halle Saint-Jacques, EUR 2.276.105, most recent results first):
- Jenson Brooksby vs. Ugo Humbert
- Alex De Minaur vs. Holger Rune
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Lorenzo Musetti
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
- Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Laslo Djere
- Stan Wawrinka vs. Casper Ruud
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Maxime Cressy vs. Dominic Stricker
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Adrian Mannarino
- Roman Safiullin vs. Andy Murray
- Alex Molcan vs. Mackenzie McDonald
- Sebastian Baez vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
- Arthur Rinderknech vs. Marin Čilić: monday
- Alexander Bublik beat Aslan Karatsev (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (2)
- Brandon Nakashima beat David Goffin (WC): 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
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