Li Tu has gained the Newport Open’s ‘battle of Australia’ beating countryman and world No.83 Aleksandar Vukic in straight units on the ATP 250 match in Rhode Island.
Ranked No.252 on the planet, the win was Adelaide-based Li’s first over a top-100 participant, and his maiden ATP-level main-draw victory.
Having come by means of qualifying, 27-year-old Li beat Vukic 6-3 7-6 (8-6) to progress to the spherical of 16, the place he’ll face one other top-100 participant within the form of the USA’s Mackenzie McDonald.
James Duckworth additionally acquired off to profitable methods in Newport, dropping the primary set however hitting 14 aces on his solution to beating France’s world No.86 Constant Lestienne 5-7 6-4 7-5.
It was not such a profitable day for Australia’s different males in first spherical motion.
Max Purcell, seeded sixth for the match, crashed out by the hands of Gijs Brouwer from the Netherlands, dropping in straight units 4-6 1-6.
Qualifier Alex Bolt, in the primary draw of an ATP-level occasion for the primary time in nearly two years, stretched big-serving American John Isner to a few units earlier than dropping 4-6 6-2 3-6.
A blast from tennis’s previous has proven up on the Nordea Open in Sweden, with Bjorn Borg’s son Leo claiming his first win on the ATP Tour.
The 20-year-old world No.437 made essentially the most of a wild-card alternative on residence soil to beat countryman Elias Ymer 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 within the first spherical.
Borg’s father Bjorn is among the sport’s best stars, having gained 11 grand slam titles within the Seventies and early Eighties earlier than retiring aged 25.
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Source: www.perthnow.com.au
