Omni Kumar, a 21-year-old California local, earned his first profession ATP Excursion main-draw win on Monday, defeating France’s Arthur Rinderknech 6-3, 7-6 (3) on the Winston-Salem Open in North Carolina.
Kumar, a Duke product, hasn’t ever even gained a main-draw fit within the second-tier Challenger collection. He were given into the Winston-Salem tournament as a fortunate loser from qualifying when Austria’s Dominic Thiem withdrew because of gastroenteritis.
Kumar transformed considered one of his two destroy issues within the fit whilst saving the one destroy level on his serve. He advances to oppose eighth-seeded Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands.
France’s Richard Gasquet, the twelfth seed, beat Switzerland’s Marc-Andrea Huesler 6-4, 6-4, and 14th-seeded Marton Fucsovics of Hungary posted a 6-4, 6-2 win over China’s Zhizhen Zhang in second-round fits. Yet one more second-round fit used to be contested overdue Monday night time, with sixth-seeded Sebastian Baez of Argentina assembly Colombia’s Daniel Elahi Galan.
Different first-round winners have been U.S. qualifier Mitchell Krueger, U.S. wild-card entrant Michael Mmoh, Australia’s Max Purcell and Rinky Hijikata, Argentina’s Facundo Diaz Acosta, Nice Britain’s Jack Draper, Germany’s Dominik Koepfer, and France’s Luca Van Assche.
—Box Degree Media
