Sebastian Korda, Great Britain's Jacob Fearnley and Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic all pulled off upsets of seeded players in the first round at the Nordic Open in Stockholm, Sweden.

Korda finished decisively with a 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-3 triumph over seventh-seeded Australian Alexei Popyrin. Fearnley took 2 hours, 44 minutes to edge fifth-seeded Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands, 6-3, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (5), and Kecmanovic routed sixth-seeded Frenchman Alexandre Muller, 6-4, 6-1.

There were no breaks of serve in the third set between Fearnley and Griekspoor, but six lost service points by both players combined in the tiebreaker. Fearnley failed on two match points on his serve, but prevailed on his opponent's fourth failure of the decider.

In the other opening-round match, the host nation's Leo Bo

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