Zhuhai Open: Zhang advances to second round
Zhizhen Zhang edged out Denis Yevseyev 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 on Thursday and will play Italian Mattia Bellucci in the next round
Chinese Zhizhen Zhang, the No 6 seed, edged out Kazakh qualifier Denis Yevseyev 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Zhuhai Open at the Hengqin International Tennis Center on Thursday afternoon.
Zhang, ranked No 48, will play Italian Mattia Bellucci next.
Zhuhai ATP 250, other first-round results (Hengqin International Tennis Center, hard, USD 1.000.630, most recent results first):
- Mattia Bellucci beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 6-0
- Chak Lam Coleman Wong (Q) beat Yibing Wu (WC): 6-3 ret.
- Yasutaka Uchiyama (Q) beat James McCabe (LL): 6-4, 6-4
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Corentin Moutet: 7-6 (6), 6-1
- Alexander Shevchenko beat Marco Trungelliti (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Yunchaokete Bu (WC) beat Hugo Gaston: 7-5, 6-3
- Rinky Hijikata beat Damir Dzumhur: 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2
- Yoshihito Nishioka (8) beat Maximilian Marterer: 6-4, 6-2
- Marin Cilic (WC) beat Zachary Svajda: 5-7, 6-3, 6-0
- Mikhail Kukushkin beat Luciano Darderi (5): 6-3, 6-4
- Fabian Marozsan (7) beat Luca Nardi: 6-0, 6-2
