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Tsitsipas makes fast work of Evans in ATP

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Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas has beaten Great Britain's Dan Evans to advance at the European Open.
Camera IconGreece's Stefanos Tsitsipas has beaten Great Britain's Dan Evans to advance at the European Open.

Second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas claimed his first ATP Tour win of the season on clay, beating Dan Evans 6-3 6-1 inside an hour at the European Open.

Tsitsipas bounced back from a first-round loss at the Italian Open last week.

The Greek player faces qualifier Pablo Cuevas in the second round at Hamburg.

Roberto Bautista Agut, seeded fourth, came from a break down in the deciding set to beat Dominik Koepfer 6-3 3-6 6-3.

Bautista Agut's quarter-final opponent is Andrey Rublev, who beat Tommy Paul 6-1 3-6 6-2 in their second-round match.

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Rublev only landed 39 per cent of his first serves in the deciding set, but the fifth-seeded Russian broke the American three times in a row.

Cristian Garin stayed on course for his third clay-court title of 2020 with a 6-2 7-6 (7-3) win over Yannick Hanfmann to set up a quarter-final with Kazakh player Alexander Bublik.

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