Swiss wild card Dominic Stricker toppled No. 8 seed Jaume Munar of Spain 6-2, 6-4 before a home crowd at the EFG Swiss Open Gstaad in first-round action on Monday.
Stricker, ranked 360th in the world, beat his top-50 opponent in a tidy 82 minutes as he fired seven aces, converted 5 of 7 break-point opportunities and saved 4 of 6 break points he faced.
No. 7 seed Raphael Collignon of Belgium avoided the upset bug with a 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4 comeback over Kazakh qualifier Timofey Skatov, who saved five match points before finally succumbing. Other first-round winners included Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia, Lorenzo Sonego of Italy and French qualifier Clement Tabur.
Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
Dino Prizmic delighted the home crowd by sailing past Czech eighth seed Vit Kopriva 6-1, 6-3 to kick off the tournament in his native Croatia.
Prizmic went 3-for-3 in saving break points and 4-for-4 in breaking Kopriva’s serve. Prizmic won a whopping 24 of his 28 first-service points (85.7%).
Frenchman Luca Van Assche rallied for a 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory over Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic, while Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Damir Dzumhur and Argentina’s Marco Trungelliti advanced in straight sets.
Nordea Open
In the only main-draw match of the day in Bastad, Sweden, Jesper de Jong of the Netherlands edged Vilius Gaubas of Lithuania 7-6 (1), 7-5.
de Jong fired 15 aces and won a dominant 55 of 77 total service points (71.4%). He went down a break early in the second set but won five of the final six games.
–Field Level Media
