Bernard Tomic goes down swinging in Almaty
Bernard Tomic showed glimpses of the form that propelled him to his career-high ranking of 17 nine years ago, on his way to a 6-1, 7-6(9) loss to Corentin Moutet at the Almaty Open.
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Eslewhere, Gabriel Diallo made an impressive start to his latest campaign at the ATP 250, dispatching wild card Amir Omarkhanov 6-3, 6-1.
In a dominant performance, Diallo won 93 per cent (25/27) of his first-serve points and did not face a break point to advance after just 62 minutes. Diallo won his maiden tour-level trophy in ‘s-Hertogenbosch earlier this season and will aim to add to that triumph in Almaty, where he next meets James Duckworth after the Australian qualifier downed Ugo Blanchet 6-3, 6-4.
In other Day 1 action, Fabian Marozsan beat Luca Nardi 7-6(3), 6-3.
The No. 52 player in the ATP Rankings recovered from squandering a 5-3 lead in the first set and now leads the Italian 3-0 head-to-head.
Marozsan has recorded 25 wins this year and is the third Hungarian man to reach that milestone in a season, joining Balazs Taroczy and Marton Fucsovics.
