1 seed Holger Rune of Denmark bounced back from a rough first set to beat Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 in first-round action at the Swiss Indoors Basel on Tuesday.
Rune overcame four double faults and 15 unforced errors by winning 30 of his 43 first-service points (69.8 percent).
4 seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland beat Serbia's Dusan Lajovic 7-6 (2), 6-3, while fifth seed Alex de Minaur of Australia beat Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 6-4, 6-4.
4 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece beat home-country favorite Dominic Thiem 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the first round in Vienna, Austria.
3 seed Andrey Rublev of Russia defeated Australia's Alexei Popyrin 7-6 (5), 6-4, and American sixth seed Tommy Paul took care of Frenchman Alexandre Muller 6-3, 6-1.
Persons:
Holger Rune, Brandon Nakashima, Aly, Denmark, Serbia's, Rune, Hubert Hurkacz, Serbia's Dusan Lajovic, Alex de Minaur, Diego Schwartzman, Nicolas Jarry of, Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, Tallon Griekspoor, Russian Alexander Shevchenko, Dominic Stricker, Dominic Thiem, Tsitsipas, Andrey Rublev, Australia's Alexei Popyrin, Tommy Paul, Frenchman Alexandre Muller, Frances Tiafoe, Daniel Evans of Great, Grigor Dimitrov of, Tomas Machac, Lorenzo Sonego
Organizations:
Shanghai, Sports City Arena, U.S, REUTERS, Swiss, Basel, Australia, Erste Bank, Russia, Thomson
Locations:
Shanghai, China, Poland, Argentina, Nicolas Jarry of Chile, Netherlands, Russian, Swiss, Greece, Vienna, Austria, American, U.S, Daniel Evans of Great Britain, Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, Czech