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New Zealand tennis No1 Dan King-Turner has won his first-round singles match at the US$15,000 ($20,300) Futures event at Nottingham in England. King-Turner, ranked at a career-high 318, beat Brit Ken Skupski 6-3, 6-4.
He faces another Englishman, Miles Kasiri, in the second round. Meanwhile, Marina Erakovic and Anne Keotavong (England) were forced to withdraw from their first-round doubles match at the WTA event after Keotavong suffered a hip injury.