Nishikori and Murray meet before the favorites' turn

This Tuesday will be the turn for the big favorites of the ATP 500 of Rotterdam. The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the second seed who will face the Belarusian Gerasimov (starting at 19:30), will take the stage; the Russian Rublev, eighth in the world, who has an appointment not before 12:30 with the American Giron, or another Russian, Karen Khachanov, number 21 in the ranking to be measured against his immediate predecessor on the world list, the Swiss Stan Wawrinka, not before 14:30, in the last shift of the daytime session.

But this Tuesday some figures of the circuit already began their journey in the tournament in the Netherlands. This was the case of the Japanese Kei Nishikori, who defeated the young Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in two sets by 7-6 (4y) and 6-1 in one hour and 29 minutes. Nishikori, a former top-10 who now roams in 45th place in the ATP, will face the winner of the Australian duel between De Miñaur and Millman, also this Tuesday (11:00).

Andy Murray (123), meanwhile, had to come back against the 193rd in the standings, the Dutch Robin Haase, whom he defeated 2-6, 7-6 (2) and 6-3 in two and a half hours. Between Rublev and Giron will be his next rival. Another Briton, Cameron Norrie (65), did manage to advance to the second round at the expense of Georgian Basilashvili (40). He won 6-0, 6-3 in just over an hour and will face Wawrinka or Khachanov soon.