Recipient of a wild card in Atlanta, the American Jack Sock was eliminated in the first place by his compatriot Tommy Paul, seeded number 5, on Tuesday. Defeat 6-1, 6-1.
Paul, ranked 36th in the ATP, will face SoonWoo Kwon in the second round of the Georgian tournament.
The other matches of the first round in Atlanta (ATP 250, Atlantic Stadion, hard, 792,980 USD, results are displayed from newest to oldest):
- Peter Gojowczyk – Nick Kyrgios: scheduled for Wednesday
- Andres Martin – Thanasi Kokkinakis : programmé mardi
- Dominik Koepfer – James Duckworth: scheduled for Tuesday
- Ben Shelton – Ramkumar Ramanathan: scheduled for Tuesday
- Denis Kudla – Mackenzie McDonald: scheduled for Tuesday
- Jenson Brooksby (N.6) – Benoit Pair: 6-3, 6-1
- Ilya Ivashka – Quentin Halys : 6-0, 3-6, 6-3
- John Millman – Alexei Popyrin : 7-6 [1]4-6, 6-3
- Brandon Nakashima (N.8) – Jordan Thompson : 7-6 [5]3-6, 6-3
- Taro Daniel (Q) – Sebastian Korda : 1-6, 6-1, 6-3
- SoonWoo Kwon – Marcos Giron : 7-6 [3]4-6, 7-5
