KEY POINTS:
Two of the three New Zealanders playing in a US$15,000 ($20,600) Daegu Futures tennis tournament in Korea won their first-round matches.
Dan King-Turner lost his first-round singles to qualifier Chul-Hee Lee 7-6(1), 6-2 but fellow Davis Cup players Rubin Statham and Simon Rea both won.
Statham beat Ukrainian Vladislav Bondarenko 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and will play American Lesley Joseph in the second round.
Rea beta eighth seed Yuichi Sugita of Japan 6-1, 4-6, 7-6(2) to set up a second-round match against Korean Jae-Sung An.