American Brandon Nakashima reached the second round of the cinch Championships when wildcard Dan Evans retired through injury on Tuesday at Queen’s Club in London.
Nakashima, ranked No 63, led 4-6, 6-3, 0-0 when Evans, ranked No 59, pulled out, seemingly with a knee injury.
The 22-year-old American will face Italian Lorenzo Musetti next.
London ATP 500, other first-round results (Queen’s Club, grass, EUR 2.255.655, most recent results first):
- Mariano Navone vs. Jack Draper
- Andy Murray vs. Alexei Popyrin: tuesday
- Ben Shelton vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: tuesday
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Billy Harris: tuesday
- Carlos Alcaraz (1) beat Francisco Cerundolo: 6-1, 7-5
- Tommy Paul (5) beat Sebastian Baez: 6-4, 6-4
- Alejandro Tabilo beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-1
- Sebastian Korda beat Karen Khachanov: 7-5, 7-6 (5)
- Lorenzo Musetti beat Alex De Minaur (2): 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Taylor Fritz (4) beat Taro Daniel (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Ugo Humbert (8): 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (6)
- Milos Raonic beat Cameron Norrie: 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-6 (9)
- Jordan Thompson beat Holger Rune (7): 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3
- Rinky Hijikata (Q) beat Frances Tiafoe: 7-5, 4-6, 1-0 ret.
- Grigor Dimitrov (3) beat Adrian Mannarino: 6-1, 6-2