Top-seeded Taylor Fritz fought off a stiff test from U.S. countryman Marcos Giron to earn a 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (1) win in the first round of the Nexo Dallas Open on Tuesday.

Fritz posted a 21-9 edge in aces and won 81% of his first-serve points. However, he managed to break Giron’s serve in just two of his 10 opportunities.

Second-seeded Ben Shelton of the United States bested Canada’s Gabriel Diallo 6-4, 6-4, but two other seeded players fell. Great Britain’s Jack Pinnington Jones trounced fourth-seeded Flavio Cobolli of Italy 6-2, 6-2, and Croatia’s Marin Cilic edged sixth-seeded Learner Tien of the U.S. 7-5, 7-6 (4).

It was the 600th career ATP Tour win for Cilic, 37, who joined Serbia’s Novak Djokovic (1,168) as the only active players to reach that milestone. He also passed Goran Ivanisevic’s total of 599 wins to top the all-time list among Croatians.

Other winners were Aleksandar Kovacevic and Alex Michelsen of the United States and Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia.

In the last match of the night, defending champion Denis Shapovalov of Canada, the seventh seed, was set to oppose Rafael Jodar of Spain.

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Serbia’s Hamad Medjedovic, a lucky loser from qualifying, took advantage of his late entry into the event at Rotterdam, Netherlands, and defeated Belgium’s Zizou Bergs 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) in the first round.

Medjedovic, who entered the draw when Hungary’s Fabian Marozsan withdrew, trailed 5-2 in the first set and fought off a set point in the next game before capturing the tiebreaker. The players exchanged service breaks in the 11th and 12th games of the second set, and Medjedovic again came through in a tiebreaker.

Top-seeded Alex de Minaur of Australia downed France’s Arthur Fils 7-6 (3), 6-2, and the Netherlands’ Tallon Griekspoor beat France’s Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-4, 6-4. France’s Quentin Halys and Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff also advanced.

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Argentina’s Juan Manuel Cerundolo pulled off a first-round upset in his home land, defeating fifth-seeded Daniel Altmaier of Germany 6-2, 6-2 in Buenos Aires.

Altmaier struggled with his serve, putting just 69% of his first serves in play and winning only 35% of his second serves. He also committed 30 unforced errors to Cerundolo’s nine.

Sixth-seeded Camilo Ugo Carabelli won an all-Argentine matchup against Francisco Comesana 6-4, 7-6 (3), and eighth-seeded Matteo Berrettini of Italy ousted Argentina’s Federico Coria 7-5, 7-5. Also moving on were the Czech Republic’s Tomas Barrios Vera, Argentina’s Roman Andres Burruchaga and Peru’s Ignacio Buse.

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Isaiah Evans scored 21 points to power No. 4 Duke to a 70-54 road win at Pittsburgh on Tuesday night.

Evans went 5 of 6 from 3-point range in the bounce-back victory for the Blue Devils (22-2, 11-1 Atlantic Coast Conference). Cameron Boozer contributed his 13th double-double of the season with 17 points and 10 rebounds, while Caleb Foster scored 14 points, grabbed eight rebounds and dished out five assists.

Roman Siulepa paced the Panthers (9-16, 2-10) with 19 points, and Barry Dunning Jr. scored 17. It was Pitt’s fourth consecutive loss and 10th in its last 12 games.

Pitt had a six-point lead early on, and still maintained a one-point advantage with less than three minutes remaining in the first half. Dunning scored 13 points in the opening period, while Duke struggled with its shooting from beyond the arc, hitting just 22.2% of its 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes. However, one of the 3-pointers the Blue Devils made was from Devin Harris, which capped off a 7-0 run to close the half with Duke up 35-29.

Duke turned up the tempo in the second half and went on to lead by as much as 18 points following a 14-5 run late in the game. That scoring surge began with a thunderous dunk by Boozer, then punctuated by the freshman phenom converting a 3-point play where he connected on a layup through contact and then knocked down the free throw.

Pitt made just one field goal in the final four minutes of play.

The Blue Devils dominated inside, outrebounding the Panthers 37-23 and outscoring them in the paint 36-22. After a hot shooting first half, Pitt made just 2 of 13 3-pointers in the second half while Duke knocked down 7 of 14, with four of those makes coming from Evans.

Duke played without starting center Patrick Ngongba, who was listed as questionable with a left hand injury coming into the game. Ultimately, the 6-foot-11 sophomore was sidelined while wearing a wrap on his hand on the bench.

“He’s doing better. He’s really tough, he played through it (against North Carolina on Saturday). The good news is we got the imaging and all that,” Duke head coach Jon Scheyer said on the Blue Devils’ pregame radio show. “Everything is intact and he’s okay, but there’s some stuff going on there with some soreness and we got to get him right and healthy.”

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Santiago Trouet scored a season-high 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as Arizona State posted an 85-76 victory over Oklahoma State on Tuesday in Tempe, Ariz.

The Sun Devils (13-12, 4-8 Big 12) had six players finish with double-figure scoring, led by Massamba Diop with 17 points.

Maurice Odum had 13 points and seven rebounds, Noah Meeusen finished with 12 points, Andrija Grbovic had 11 points and Anthony Johnson scored 10. Trouet logged his fourth double-double of the season for Arizona State, which had lost three of its previous four games.

Oklahoma State (16-8, 4-7) was swept in its trip to No. 1 Arizona and Arizona State, affecting its status as an NCAA tournament bubble team.

Parsa Fallah and Anthony Roy each scored 16 points to lead the Cowboys. Kanye Clary finished with 11, and Vyctorious Miller had 10.

The Cowboys tied the game twice in the second half, the last time with 14:39 remaining, but could not take the lead.

Arizona State went up 60-52 lead with 10:37 left on a three-point play by Diop.

The Cowboys cut the gap to 60-57, drawing the third foul by Odum and fourth on Diop in that stretch.

Odum was whistled for his fourth foul with 6:32 left, and Jaylen Curry made both free throws to slice the Sun Devils’ lead to 66-63.

Oklahoma State also encountered foul problems with Fallah, Roy and Miller playing with four in the second half.

After a 3-pointer by Clary got the Cowboys within 69-68 with 4:37 left, Arizona State scored the next nine points to pull away. Meeusen capped the surge by making a layup and two free throws.

Arizona State outscored Oklahoma State 17-6 to build a 29-16 lead with 8:08 left in the first half.

Grbovic scored the last seven points in that run by hitting two 3-pointers, one of which resulted in a four-point play when he was fouled taking the shot.

Oklahoma State answered with a 16-3 run to tie the game at 32 with 2:34 left in the half.

The Cowboys failed to make a field goal in the last 3 1/2 minutes, missing their final three shots of the half. They trailed 39-34 at halftime.

Oklahoma State had 10 turnovers that led to 16 points for the Sun Devils at that point. The Cowboys finished with 17 turnovers, resulting in 26 points for Arizona State.

–Field Level Media