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Tennis, ATP – Nordea Open 2024: Borges downs Pellegrino
Portuguese Nuno Borges, the No 7 seed, defeated Italian lucky loser Andrea Pellegrino 6-2, 7-6 (3) to reach the second round of the Nordea Open at the Båstads tennisstadion.
Borges, ranked No 51, will play Portuguese Henrique Rocha next.
Bastad ATP 250, other first-round results (Båstads tennisstadion, clay, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):
- Rafael Nadal (WC) beat Leo Borg (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Henrique Rocha beat Camilo Ugo Carabelli: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Sumit Nagal beat Elias Ymer (WC): 6-4, 6-3
- Duje Ajdukovic (Q) beat Luca Van Assche: 6-3, 6-3
- Denis Yevseyev (Q) beat Alexandre Muller: 7-5, 7-5
- Timofey Skatov (Q) beat Taro Daniel: 6-7 (7), 6-2, 7-6 (4)
- Thiago Monteiro beat Federico Coria: 6-1, 6-3
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Roman Safiullin (6): 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Thiago Agustin Tirante beat Jaime Faria (Q): 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Cameron Norrie (5) beat Jozef Kovalik: 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Pavel Kotov (8) beat Cristian Garin: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-1
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