Italian Matteo Arnaldi earned victory on debut on the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Tuesday when he overcame Dutch qualifier Jesper De Dong 6-3, 6-2 to achieve the second spherical.
The 22-year-old, who competed on the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals in 2022, received 77 per cent (20/26) of his first-serve factors and broke De Dong 4 instances to triumph one hour and 33 minutes on the clay-court ATP 250.
The seventh seed Arnaldi has now earned seven tour-level wins this yr, along with his finest outcome a run to the third spherical in Madrid. He’ll subsequent play countryman Flavio Cobolli.
In different motion, Hungarian Zsombor Piros beat Australian Christopher O’Connell 6-3, 6-4. The World No. 124 has received two ATP Challenger Tour titles this yr.
A number of different matches on the schedule, together with Stan Wawrinka‘s conflict towards Filip Misolic, had been cancelled resulting from rain.