Britain’s Jack Draper marked his return to the ATP Tour with a simple win over Portugal’s Nuno Borges on the Winston-Salem Open.
A shoulder harm led to Draper, 21, retiring from his first-round match on the French Open in Could.
In his first event again, he reached the quarter-finals of final week’s Challenger occasion in Winnipeg.
And the left-hander made swift work of his ATP return, beating world quantity 79 Borges 6-3 6-1 in simply 55 minutes.
Draper’s harm in opposition to Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry introduced a untimely finish to his French Open senior debut and compelled him to miss the grass-court season.
He had dropped to 123rd within the rankings, having been at a career-high 38 in mid-January, however edged again as much as 118 after final week’s occasion in Canada.
Within the second spherical in North Carolina, Draper will face Dutch second seed Tallon Griekspoor, who’s ranked twenty fifth on the earth.