Over in Austria, British No 1 Norrie – who lost in the quarter-final of the Stockholm Open last week after returning following his Covid-19 layoff – kicks off his campaign against Pedro Cachin from Argentina. Ruud and Wawrinka will meet in a tasty opening clash with the winner going on to face American Nakashima, who beat David Goffin on Monday. * returns to Basel for 1st time since '05 3 20, bids to become youngest Swiss to earn Basel win since in '00 The winner of that clash will face either sixth seed Roberto Bautista Agut or qualifier Laslo Dere in the second round while a third-round meeting with one of Casper Ruud, Stan Wawrinka or Brandon Nakashima is on the cards. Murray, who is now No 49 in the ATP Rankings, is 28-18 this year. Instead it will be a first-ever ATP Tour-level meeting between the former world No 1 and qualifier Safiullin. He was initially due to face Korda again, but the American withdrew on the back of reaching the final in Antwerp on Sunday. The three-time Grand Slam winner returns to action for the first time since losing in the quarter-final of the Gijon Open against Sebastian Korda. There are two big ATP 500 events taking place this week with Andy Murray featuring in the Swiss Indoors while Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans are in action at the Vienna Open.Īfter Jack Draper lost in the opening round against Carlos Alcaraz in Basel, Murray is the only British player remaining in the draw and he opens his account against world No 93 Roman Safiullin on Tuesday.
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