Stefanos Tsitsipas, Milos Raonic and Grigor Dimitrov advance

The highest seed Stefanos Tsitsipas is thru to the second spherical in Acapulco following a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Benoit Paire in 68 minutes. The Greek saved each break factors and stored the stress on the opposite facet of the court docket, stealing half of Paire’s serving factors and delivering 4 breaks that carried him via.

Stefanos grabbed a break within the second sport because of a fortunate web wire forehand winner and held at 30 to open a 3-0 hole. Each gamers served nicely in the remainder of the set, and the Greek sealed it with a volley winner at 5-3. Paire hit a double fault at first of the second set to undergo a break and fell 3-0 down following a wild backhand in sport three.

Serving at 4-1, Stefanos saved two break factors to increase the benefit and moved excessive with one other break a couple of minutes later. The 4th seed Milos Raonic prevailed over Tommy Paul 7-6, 6-4 in an hour and 48 minutes, dropping serve twice and producing three return video games to seal the deal and attain the second spherical.

Paul saved two set factors within the opening set’s tenth sport and had his possibilities within the tie break. Milos raced into an early lead in set quantity two and closed the duel regardless of some preliminary shot issues. Tommy needed to dig deep in three consecutive service video games within the first set, saving these set factors at 4-5 to succeed in a tie break, the place he erased two extra set factors at 4-6 to stay in contact.

Stefanos Tsitsipas and Milos Raonic made a successful begin in Mexico.

Milos moved 7-6 forward with an unreturned serve and clinched the opener with a forehand winner for a large enhance. The Canadian rattled off three straight return video games at first of the second set, transferring 4-1 up when Paul netted a backhand in sport 5.

Tommy saved a match level in sport eight with a fortunate return winner and pulled one break again for extra drama. With no room for errors, Milos held at 15 in sport ten to complete the job and make a successful begin. A teen Lorenzo Musetti defeated the third seed Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 in two hours and 22 minutes for his first top-10 triumph.

Because of that second set, Diego received three factors greater than Lorenzo, though it wasn’t sufficient to hold him via, falling 4-0 down within the decider and saving 5 match factors earlier than the teen seized the sixth in sport ten.