Hamburg Open: Dominic Thiem beat Pablo Cuevas to enter second round; Alexander Zverev, Fabio Fognini advance

Hamburg: Back on clay for the first time since losing the French Open final to Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem beat Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 7-6 (3) Tuesday to reach the second round of the Hamburg European Open. [caption id=“attachment_5117721” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Dominic Thiem in action. Reuters[/caption] The top-seeded Thiem broke Cuevas in the Uruguayan’s first service game of each set, but struggled to press his advantage before closing out the match in 1 hour, 42 minutes. It was Thiem’s 250th career tour-level win and set up a second-round meeting with Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics. Thiem’s only previous match since the French Open final was a first-round loss to Sam Querrey at Wimbledon. Second-seeded German Alexander Zverev pleased his home crowd with a 6-4, 6-2 over Nicolas Jarry, whom he also beat in the Geneva final in May. Next up for Zverev is Federico Delbonis. Third-seeded Fabio Fognini dealt with qualifier Julian Lenz 6-4, 6-4, while fourth-seeded Nikoloz Basilashvili beat qualifier Hugo Dellien 6-4, 6-3 in just over an hour, and will next face Juan Ignacio Londero. The day’s surprise result came in an all-Serbian first-round match as fifth-seeded Laslo Djere was beaten 6-3, 6-3 by compatriot Filip Krajinovic. Seventh-seeded Jan-Lennard Struff had 10 aces as he eased past Thiago Monteiro 6-1, 6-3.