1st rounds underway in 5 cities

A handful of first round matches have been played in this weeks tournaments with no great highlights, perhaps the exception being in Estoril.  The all American match between Frances Tiafoe and Tennys Sandgren lasted two hours and fifty minutes, and three sets, the final two requiring tie breaks.

Set one saw five breaks of serve, with Sandgren gaining three of those, and winning the set 6-3.  His better percentage of points won on first serve was possibly a deciding factor.

Set two belonged to the server, and the tie break was reached with just one break point and that was saved.

Tiafoe won the tie break seven points to five and levelled the match.

Two breaks apiece in the deciding set led to another tie break, and Tiafoe prevailed once again, seven points to four, claiming the battle 3-6   7-6(5) 7-6(4)

Other results

Estoril:

Wildcard Alex de Minaur defeated Gastao Elias 6-3 6-1

Wildcard Pedro Sousa defeated Gilles Simon 6-3 4-6 7-6(4)

Munich:

Wildcard Yannick Hanfmann defeated Marcos Baghdatis 6-2 6-4

Wildcard Matthias Bachinger defeated Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6(8) 3-6 6-3

Qualifier Martin Klizan defeated Florian Mayer 3-6 6-4 6-3

Istanbul:

Laslo Djere defeated Denis Istomin 7-6(5) 7-6(6)

Qualifier Marco Trungelliti defeated qualifier Elias Ymer 4-6 6-3 6-2

Paolo Lorenzi (5) defeated wildcard Cem Ilekel 6-2 6-3

Viktor Troicki (6) defeated wildcard Bernard Tomic 3-6 6-0 7-5

Taro Daniel defeated Matteo Berrettini 7-5 6-3

Prague:

Qiang Wang defeated Viktoria Kuzmova 7-6(4) 6-1

Samantha Stosur defeated Daria Gavrilova (4) 6-3 4-6 (retired)

Lucky loser in qualifying Tamara Korpatsch defeated Oceane Dodin 6-2 7-5

Wildcard Anna Karolina Schmiedlova defeated Heather Watson 6-1 6-3

Katerina Siniakova (8) defeated Andrea Petkovic 6-2 7-6(4)

Ekaterina Alexandrova defeated Richel Hogenkamp 7-6(5) 6-1

Natalia Vikhlyantseva defeated Carina Witthoeft 6-4 6-4

Rabat:

Johanna Larsson defeated Rebecca Peterson 2-6 6-3 6-1

Sara Errani defeated Zarina Diyas (6) 6-4 6-4

Jana Fett defeated Sachia Vickery 6-2 3-6 6-3

Kirsten Flipkens defeated Petra Martic (3) 3-6 6-2 6-4

Sara Sorribes Tormo defeated Yulia Putintseva 7-6(4) 6-0

Some of the bigger names will be action tomorrow, including Lleyton Hewitt.  He will be playing doubles, pairing with fellow Aussie, Alex de Minaur, in Estoril against the second seeds Raven Klaasen (South Africa) and Michael Venus (New Zealand)