Tennis news - Feliciano Lopez makes winning start in Antwerp

ByEurosport

Updated 15/10/2018 at 20:21 GMT

Feliciano Lopez reached the second round of the European Open in Antwerp with a straight-sets win over Frances Tiafoe.

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Spaniard Lopez, the seventh seed, was pushed hard by his American opponent but eventually ran out a 6-4 7-6 (7/5) winner

Canada’s Vasek Pospisil beat Leonardo Mayer of Argentina 6-3 7-5, American MacKenzie McDonald got past Chile’s Nicolas Jarry 6-1 7-6 (10/8) and Czech Jiri Vesely saw off Jaume Munar of Spain 6-4 6-4.

At the Kremlin Cup in Moscow Slovenia’s Aljaz Bedene dropped the first set but battled back to squeeze past Serbia’s Laslo Djere 5-7 6-4 7-6 (7/2).

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Czech Lukas Rosol also needed three sets to beat Italian Matteo Berrettini 6-3 4-6 6-4, as did Adrian Mannarino of France in a 3-6 6-4 7-6 (7/4) win over Russia’s Evgeny Karlovskiy.

Denis Kudla of the United States beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 6-2 7-5 at the Stockholm Open.

Sweden’s Elias Ymer joined Kudla in round two with a 4-6 7-5 7-5 win over Maximilian Marterer of Germany.

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