Fourth-seeded Frances Tiafoe opened with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over wild card Yasutaka Uchiyama in first-round motion of the Japan Open Tennis Championships on Monday.
Eight aces helped Tiafoe win in a single hour, 14 minutes.
Fellow American Brandon Nakashima, who received his first ATP Tour title final month in San Diego, earned a 6-3, 6-2 win over Japanese wild card Shintaro Mochizuki whereas a pair of Spaniards additionally superior by way of straight-set victories. Pedro Martinez defeated Aussie Alexei Popyrin 7-5, 6-4 and Bernabe Zapata Miralles topped Taro Daniels of Japan 7-5, 7-5.
Astana Open
Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz defeated Argentine Francisco Cerundolo 6-2, 7-6 (2) in first-round motion in Astana, Kazakhstan.
The seventh-seeded Hurkacz recorded 11 aces and received 80 % of his first serves to advance.
Frenchman Adrian Mannarino defeated wild card Stan Wawrinka 1-6, 6-2, 6-3, Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands cruised previous wild card Beibit Zhukayev of Kazakhstan 6-1, 6-1, and Chinese qualifier Zhizhen Zhang rallied previous Russian Aslan Karatsev 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.
–Field Level Media