Taiwanese No. 1 Lu Yen-hsun advanced to the second round of the Atlanta Open on Monday with a straight-sets victory over Malek Jaziri of Tunisia.
World No. 76 Lu survived a second-set fightback to defeat the world No. 77 6-1, 7-6 (14/12) on the hard courts at Atlantic Station.
Jaziri held his serve in the first game, but then Lu won six straight to wrap up the first set in just 24 minutes.
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Jaziri then rallied in the second, breaking the Taiwanese No. 1 to take a 4-2 lead, but Lu broke back when the Tunisian was serving for the set at 5-4.
In the tiebreaker Lu survived six set points, before converting his third to wrap up the victory in 1 hour, 26 minutes.
Overall, Lu failed to save the single break point he faced, but converted four of five, winning 74 of the 128 points contested to advance to a second-round clash with second seed Vasek Pospisil of Canada, the world No. 29, who received a bye in the first round.
Also advancing to the second round in Atlanta on Monday were seventh seed Gilles Muller of Luxembourg, who cruised past Donald Young of the US 6-2, 6-1 in just 66 minutes, and Japan’s Go Soeda, who rallied to edge Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 in 2 hours, 13 minutes.
Lu is also competing in the doubles in Atlanta alongside Britain’s Jonathan Marray.
They have been drawn to play against wild-card US duo Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick in the first round.
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