Portuguese Nuno Borges, the No 7 seed, defeated Italian lucky loser Andrea Pellegrino 6-2, 7-6 (3) to advance to the second round of the Nordea Open at the Båstads tennisstadion.
Borges, ranked No 51, will face Portuguese Henrique Rocha in the next round.
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
