Vienna Open: Lucky loser Sonego edges out Cerundolo to reach second round
Lorenzo Sonego beat Francisco Cerundolo 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 and will play the winner of the match between Ben Shelton and Jannik Sinner in the next round
Lorenzo Sonego in Miami in 2023 (Zuma/Panoramic)
Italian lucky loser Lorenzo Sonego won against Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Vienna Open at the Wiener Stadthalle.
Sonego, ranked No 52, will play the winner of the highly-anticipated second meeting between American Ben Shelton and Italian Jannik Sinner, the second seed, next.
Vienna ATP500, other first-round results (Wiener Stadthalle, EUR 2.409.835, most recent results first):
- Ben Shelton vs. Jannik Sinner
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Arthur Fils
- Gael Monfils vs. Daniel Altmaier
- Aslan Karatsev vs. Borna Gojo
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Lorenzo Musetti: tuesday
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (4) beat Dominic Thiem (WC): 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Frances Tiafoe (7) beat Daniel Evans: 1-4 ret.
- Tomas Machac (Q) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-3, 6-1
- Andrey Rublev (3) beat Alexei Popyrin: 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Tommy Paul (6) beat Alexandre Muller (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Cameron Norrie beat Filip Misolic (Q): 7-6 (7), 4-6, 6-3
- Alexander Zverev (5) beat Sebastian Ofner (WC): 6-4, 6-1
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas (Q): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2)
- Karen Khachanov (8) beat Roman Safiullin: 6-4, 6-4
- Jiri Lehecka beat J.J. Wolf: 6-4, 6-4
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