Tennis, ATP – Cincinnati Masters 2024: Draper defeats Munar
Jack Draper moved into the second round of the Western & Southern Open by edging out Spanish qualifier Jaume Munar 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (5) at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Wednesday afternoon.
The British left-hander came back from a break down in the third set and saved a break point while serving at 5-5. He converted his second match point at 6-5 in the ensuing tiebreaker.
Draper, ranked No 27, will play Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 9 seed, next.
Cincinnati Masters 1000, other first-round matches (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 6.795.555):
- Max Purcell (WC) beat Tomas Machac: 6-4, 7-6 (1)
- Holger Rune (15) beat Matteo Berrettini (WC): 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Nuno Borges (Q) beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-4, 3-6, 6-1
- Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Fabian Marozsan beat Corentin Moutet (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Arthur Fils beat Brandon Holt (Q): 6-4, 6-1
- Brandon Nakashima (WC) beat Taylor Fritz (11): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
- Yoshihito Nishioka (Q) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-4, 7-5
- Lorenzo Musetti (14) beat Nicolas Jarry: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)
- Ben Shelton (12) beat Reilly Opelka (WC): 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
- Jordan Thompson beat Ugo Humbert (13): 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Alex Michelsen (Q) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
- Jiri Lehecka beat Mariano Navone: 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Frances Tiafoe beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 6-3, 7-6 (6)
- Luciano Darderi beat Alejandro Tabilo: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Sebastian Baez beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (6)
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Karen Khachanov beat Francisco Cerundolo: 6-0, 6-3
- Flavio Cobolli beat Tommy Paul (10): 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Sebastian Korda
- Gael Monfils vs. Alexei Popyrin
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