Fifth-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov continued his return to form Tuesday, dropping just six points on serve en route to a 6-3, 6-4 victory over qualifier Lloyd Harris at the Shenzhen Open.

Dolgopolov, who is nearing the Top 50 of the Emirates ATP Rankings once again after falling to No. 89 in May — his lowest ranking since 2010 — did not face a break point in dispatching his South African opponent in 63 minutes.

The Ukrainian dropped just one point in his first three service games to sprint to a 4-1 lead and would never look back. Dolgopolov hit 11 aces to help secure the victory and a matchup with compatriot Sergiy Stakhovsky, who defeated Nicolas Kicker in straight sets.

Henri Laaksonen earned the upset of the day, taking just 68 minutes to upend seventh-seeded Joao Sousa, 6-3, 6-0. It was the second-best win of the Swiss’ career by ranking, after beating World No. 29 Pablo Cuevas in Bastad earlier this year.

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Laaksonen’s toughest moment came when facing break point at 3-3 in the opening set. After nullifying the World No. 107’s opportunity, he held and would not lose another game.

Zhizhen Zhang won his second ATP World Tour match, and his second at the Shenzhen Open in three years, as the 20-year-old qualifier beat Rogerio Dutra Silva, 6-4, 6-1.

Eighth-seeded Donald Young eliminated 17-year-old wild card Nicola Kuhn, who was making his ATP World Tour debut and attempting to become the first player born in the 21st century to win a tour-level match, 7-5, 7-6(4).

Second-seeded David Goffin will begin his campaign Wednesday, while #NextGenATP World No. 4 Alexander Zverev will play his first-round doubles match with Marcelo Melo against Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski.

Mirnyi’s Milestone Doubles Win

Max Mirnyi became only the fifth player in the Open Era (since April 1968) to record 750 doubles match wins on Tuesday afternoon when he partnered Philipp Oswald to a 7-6(5), 6-1 victory over Chinese wild card Mao-Xin Gong and Ze Zhang. Todd Woodbridge (782), Bob Bryan (1,038), Mike Bryan (1,052) and Daniel Nestor (1,054) stand ahead of the Belarusian in the Open Era doubles match wins list.

Sixth-seeded Briton Kyle Edmund struck nine aces and lost just two of his first-service points to beat Australian Bernard Tomic 6-4, 6-2 in 62 minutes on Tuesday at the Chengdu Open. Tomic has played just once (US Open) since a Wimbledon first-round exit on 4 July. Edmund will now challenge #NextGenATP American Jared Donaldson in the second round.

Serbian Dusan Lajovic set up a second-round encounter against second seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas after he beat another Spaniard, qualifier Adrian Menendez-Maceiras, 6-3, 7-6(3) in 75 minutes. Elsewhere, Yen-Hsun Lu, a winner of a record 29 ATP Challenger Tour titles, defeated Swede Mikael Ymer 6-2, 6-3 and now plays fourth seed and this season’s Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag champion Andrey Rublev of Russia.

Uzbekistani Denis Istomin converted one of his 13 break point opportunities to beat Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany 6-3, 7-6(3) in one hour and 46 minutes. He now faces #NextGenATP Russian third seed Karen Khachanov, who joined Americans Jared Donaldson and Taylor Fritz on Tuesday for a visit to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

Argentine Guido Pella, a finalist at the BMW Open by FWU in Munich earlier this year, saved all three break points to beat #NextGenATP Croatian Borna Coric 6-4, 7-6(2). Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili, who lost in the Moselle Open semi-finals (l. to Paire) last week, beat seventh seed Viktor Troicki of Serbia 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 and now faces Fritz. 

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Three #NextGenATP players, Karen Khachanov, Jared Donaldson and Taylor Fritz, all visited the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

The trio, who are competing at the Chengdu Open, saw giant baby and red pandas during their morning trip and were definitely smitten by the cuddly animals, especially Donaldson, who came prepared with a variety of panda trivia.

“Did you know that China owns the rights to every panda in the world, except two? Those two are in Mexico,” said Donaldson. “My mum would be very happy that I got this opportunity to go out and see the pandas.”

Fritz said, “We got to see all kinds of pandas and it’s really cool to see what Chengdu is famous for. We travel so much, so we need to be able to go out and explore a bit.”

Khachanov said, “I really enjoyed this trip, it’s nice to see something outside of the tournament and spend some time with the locals and off the court. We’re really thankful for this. The panda is my favourite animal now!”