No. 5 seed Adolfo Daniel Vallejo of Paraguay beat China’s Jie Cui 6–1, 6–7(2), 6–4 on Thursday, 24 September, in the first round of the AITO Hangzhou Open, an ATP 250 event (Reuters / Field Level Media). Vallejo hit seven aces and saved all four break points he faced against the wild card (Reuters; Hangzhou Open draw). All four seeds who played Thursday went through.
No. 8 Kamil Majchrzak of Poland beat Italy’s Mattia Bellucci 6–3, 6–4 in 1 hour, 20 minutes. No. 6 Fábián Marozsán of Hungary beat Australian qualifier Alex Bolt 6–4, 6–2 (Reuters; Hangzhou Open draw). No. 7 Jaime Faria of Portugal needed three sets to beat France’s Terence Atmane 3–6, 7–6(9), 6–4, saving two match points in the second-set tiebreak (Reuters).
Other first-round winners Thursday were Coleman Wong of Hong Kong, China’s Yunchaokete Bu, Japan’s Taro Daniel, France’s Hugo Gaston, Australia’s Rinky Hijikata and Russia’s Roman Safiullin (Reuters). Daniel beat Dane Sweeny 7–6(6), 6–2, and Gaston beat Sho Shimabukuro 6–4, 6–4 (Hangzhou Open schedule and draw).
Two second-round matches were completed on Friday, 25 September (Hangzhou Open schedule). Marozsán beat Daniel 6–7(2), 7–5, 7–6(1) to reach the quarter-finals. Kyrian Jacquet beat No. 3 seed Tomás Martín Etcheverry 6–2, 6–3, the first seed to go out. Friday’s card also listed No. 2 Andrey Rublev against Hijikata and Faria against Gaston, the latter not before 19:30 local; those results were not complete at press time (Hangzhou Open schedule).
Medvedev, who had a first-round bye as top seed, plays Royer on Saturday, 26 September, as the third match on Center Court, where play starts at 13:30 local (Hangzhou Open order of play). Royer reached the second round with a 6–3, 6–4 win over Adam Walton on Wednesday; he lost last year’s Hangzhou final to Alexander Bublik (Hangzhou Open draw; Hangzhou Open). The Saturday card opens with No. 4 Quentin Halys against Safiullin, followed by Majchrzak against Bu, then Medvedev–Royer. Vallejo plays Wong not before 19:30 (Hangzhou Open order of play).
At the Chengdu Open, the other ATP 250 in China this week, No. 5 seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland hit 15 aces and did not face a break point in a 6–3, 7–6(10) win over Kazakhstan’s Aleksandr Shevchenko (Reuters). No. 7 Denis Shapovalov of Canada saved three of four break points to beat Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands 6–4, 7–6(3) (Reuters). Other first-round winners in Chengdu included Juan Manuel Cerúndolo, Nikoloz Basilashvili, Martin Damm, Lloyd Harris, Federico Cinà, Lorenzo Sonego, Adrian Mannarino and Alexandre Muller (Reuters).
The Hangzhou Open is a hard-court event at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center and runs through Tuesday, 29 September, when the singles final is scheduled for no earlier than 19:30 local time (Hangzhou Open; ATP).
Floor: Vallejo (5) d. Cui 6–1, 6–7(2), 6–4 (seven aces, 4/4 break points saved); Majchrzak (8) d. Bellucci 6–3, 6–4; Marozsán (6) d. Bolt 6–4, 6–2; Faria (7) d. Atmane 3–6, 7–6(9), 6–4 (two match points saved); Fri: Marozsán d. Daniel, Jacquet d. Etcheverry (3) 6–2, 6–3; Medvedev (1) v Royer Sat 26 Sep, third on Center Court; Chengdu: Hurkacz (5), Shapovalov (7) through; event through Tue 29 Sep (Reuters / Field Level Media; Hangzhou Open order of play; ATP).