Although he lost the first set, Dzmhur outclassed the opponent in the next two sets and qualified to the second round of $ 50 000 worth tournament in the capital of Russia.
It is interesting that Dzumhur and Davydenko already had an opportunity to play together at the tournament in Moscow. Namely, Dzumhur in the pair with Tomislav Brkic in the first round of qualification of doubles, was better than the Russian pair Philipp Davydenko/Alexey Vatitin with the result of 6:1 and 6:2.
Two day ago, Brkic played the match of the first round of singles in which he won the Russian representative Ivan Gakhov with 6:2 and 6:4.
(Source: novovrijeme.ba)