dominic thiem has won his first atp tour level win of the year, battling to a three—set victory overn marterer in the opening round of the estoril open in portugal. thiem — whose season has been hindered with a recurrence of a wrist injury — took the first set, before marterer pulled level in a second set tie—break. however, it was the former world number three who broke to love in the fifth game of the deciding set to take victory in two hours and 17 minutes. meanwhile roberto bautista agut improved his career record against miomir kecmanovic to six wins from six matches in the opening round in estoril, taking this victory in straight sets in an hour and 2a minutes. he'll play either daniel altmaier or pedro martinez in the second round. wild card caroline wozniack returned to the charleston open beating lucky losing mccartney kessler in straight sets. the result was wozniacki's first win on clay courts since her last appearance in charleston in 2019, when she reached the final. the former world number one claimed the title there in 2011 and was also runner—up in 2009. wozniacki wil

tennis, and dominic thiem has won his first atp match of the year, battling to a three—set victory overe opening round of the estoril open in portugal. thiem — whose season has been hindered with a recurrence of a wrist injury — took the first set, before marterer pulled level in a second set tie—break. however, it was the former world number three who broke to love in the fifth game of the deciding set to take victory in two hours and 17 minutes. meanwhile, roberto bautista agut improved his career record against miomir kecmanovic to six wins from six matches in the opening round in estoril, taking this victory in straight sets in an hour and 24 minutes. he'll play either daniel altmaier or pedro martinez in the second round. more on all of those stories on the bbc sport website and app. that's it for now. thank you very much, jane. the harry potter author jk rowling has invited police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence under scotland's new hate crime law. from today, it is a crime to stir up hatred relating to someone�*s age, disability, religion, sexual orient

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