Winston-Salem Open: Galan breezes past Albot and into second round

Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan won against Radu Albot 6-1, 7-5 to move into the second round of the Winston-Salem Open at Wake Forest Tennis Complex.

Galan, ranked No 67, will face No 6 seed Sebastian Baez next.

Winston-Salem ATP250, other first-round results (Wake Forest Tennis Complex, hard, USD 760.930, most recent results first):

• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Dominic Thiem
• Luca Van Assche vs. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski
• Michael Mmoh vs. Darian King
• Dominik Koepfer vs. Constant Lestienne
• Pavel Kotov vs. Mitchell Krueger
• Illya Marchenko vs. Rinky Hijikata
• Nuno Borges vs. Jack Draper
• Max Purcell vs. Marco Cecchinato
• Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Quentin Halys
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Jason Kubler
• Alex Michelsen vs. Juan Pablo Varillas: sunday
• Benjamin Bonzi beat Alexandre Muller: 6-4, 6-4
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo beat Roman Safiullin: 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3
• Zhizhen Zhang beat Ilya Ivashka: 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2
• Marc-Andrea Huesler beat Alexander Shevchenko: 6-3, 4-6, 4-0 ret.