the Russian tennis player, 15th-ranked Andrey Rublev in the first round of the tournament to Netherlands Rotterdam for one hour in two sets defeated the representative of Georgia Nikoloz Basilashvili– 6:2, 6:3.
Rublev six times filed through, did not allow double faults and implemented four break-points out of five, and Basilashvili, which occupies 28-e a place in rating ATP, three aces and eight double faults.
Thus, the Russian athlete came out in the 1/8 finals of the tournament where he will face Alexander Bublik (No. 56), who at the start of the Frenchman Gregoire Barrera (№90) – 6:3, 6:7 (2:7), 6:4.
