Munar beats Rio’s first round and waits for Thiem

The Spanish tennis participant Jaume Munar has handed on Tuesday the first round of the event in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), class ATP 500 and performed on clay, after beating the Italian Salvatore Caruso (7-5, 6-4).

The Balearic, world quantity 99, led the initiative in a first round wherein the transalpine countered his first two 'breaks'. Caruso, nonetheless, couldn’t reply to the third break of Spanish, within the eleventh recreation; Munar was accountable for confirming it within the subsequent recreation to take the partial.

With one other break the second set started, and though the Italian returned it within the fourth recreation, the Mallorcan achieved a 'counterbreak' that was sufficient to shut the match in simply over two hours.

Now, Munar awaits within the second round the winner of the duel between Austrian Dominic Thiem, quantity 4 of the ATP rating and first sequence head of the Brazilian contest, and the native Felipe Meligeni Alves.