Vienna Open: Draper edges past Nishikori to reach second round

No 7 seed Jack Draper beat Japanese wildcard Kei Nishikori 7-6 (5), 7-5 to advance to the second round of the Vienna Open at the Wiener Stadthalle.

Draper, ranked No 18, will play Italian Luciano Darderi next.

Vienna ATP 500, other first-round results (Wiener Stadthalle, hard, EUR 2.470.310, most recent results first):

• Brandon Nakashima vs. Tommy Paul
• Karen Khachanov vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild
• Tomas Machac vs. Fabian Marozsan
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Lorenzo Musetti (6) beat Lorenzo Sonego: 6-3, 6-2
• Luciano Darderi beat Dominic Thiem (WC): 7-6 (6), 6-2
• Gael Monfils beat Quentin Halys (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-3
• Frances Tiafoe (5) beat Cameron Norrie: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Alex De Minaur (2) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Marcos Giron beat Alex Michelsen: 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Mariano Navone: 6-2, 6-4
• Jakub Mensik (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin (8): 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Alexander Zverev (1) beat Joel Josef Schwaerzler (WC): 6-2, 6-2
• Matteo Berrettini beat Marton Fucsovics (Q): 7-5, 6-4
• Flavio Cobolli beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 7-6 (1), 6-3