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Brooksby dispatches Mpetshi Perricard, next meets Tsitsipas in Winston-Salem

Jenson Brooksby made an opening-round statement Sunday at the Winston-Salem Open, where he raced past Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-3, 6-2 in exactly 60 minutes.

Facing the hefty-serving 6’7” Frenchman, Brooksby was dominant on return, earning four breaks and producing a clean baseline effort to set a second-round clash with seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas.

“I think we really strategised on how we wanted to best contact the ball [on return],” said Brooksby when asked about his standout returning performance.

The 25-year-old Brooksby defeated former No. 3 Tsitsipas in their lone Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting in Indian Wells four years ago.

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In other action, Rinky Hijikata closed the day with a 6-4, 7-6(2) victory against 18-year-old American Darwin Blanch. Italian Mattia Bellucci survived #NextGenATP Martin Landaluce 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-1, earning his first win against the Spaniard in their five clashes — three of which occurred at ATP Challenger level.

Francisco Comesana powered past Wu Yibing 6-3, 6-4 and Miomir Kecmanovic was a 6-4, 6-3 winner against Sho Shimabukuro. Adolfo Daniel Vallejo advanced after 2016 champion Pablo Carreno Busta retired with the Paraguayan leading 6-4, 3-0.